1512 – Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded
1909 – Francis Thome, French composer, dies at 59
1954 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist, dies at 80
1958 – J. W. F. Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread), dies at 67
1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (Andy Warhol) and socialite, dies of alcohol and barbiturate intoxication at 28
1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (Nobel 1978 – discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping), dies at 71
2003 – Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2008 – Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
2015 – David Canary, American actor (Bonanza, All My Children), dies at 77
2020 – Antonis Georgiadis, Greek soccer manager (Greece, South Africa; AEK Athens, Olympiacos), dies at 87