1655 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1793 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-92) who allegedly uttered the phrase “let them eat cake”, beheaded at 37
1796 – Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1810 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut, dies at 38
1942 – 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1946 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister and war criminal, hanged at 53
1972 – Leo G. Carroll, British actor (Topper; Strangers On A Train; Man From U.N.C.L.E.), dies at 85
1996 – Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75
1998 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
2002 – Angela Dawson, American murder victim