1545 – George Spalatin, German humanist, reformer and important figure in the Reformation, dies at 60
1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1842 – Thomas Fearnley, Norwegian landscape painter, dies of typhoid fever at 39
1924 – Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental), dies at 59
1935 – Ma Barker [Arizona Clark], American crime matriarch, mother of several Barker–Karpis Gang members, dies in police shootout at 61
1942 – Carole Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], American actress (My Man Godfrey; To Be or Not to Be), dies in a plane crash at 33
1979 – Fred Elizalde, Spanish Filipino composer, dies at 71
1998 – Lionel Birkett, West Indian cricket batsman (4 Tests, 1 x 50; Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 92
2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)