583 – Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
1703 – Charles Perrault, French author and fairy tale writer (Tales of Mother Goose), dies at 75
1819 – Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
1862 – Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
1891 – Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1975 – Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (The Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1992 – Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
1995 – Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Norwegian historian, dies at 82
2010 – Hank Jones, American jazz pianist and composer, dies at 91