1510 – Edmund Dudley, English treasurer and author (Tree of Commonwealth), beheaded for treason on orders of King Henry VIII
1673 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist, dies of possible suicide at 32
1861 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (Father of Bantu Philology), dies at 48
1915 – Leo Frank, American convict, hanged in 1915 by a lynch mob in Georgia at 31
1958 – Florent Schmitt, French composer (La tragédie de Salome; Psalm 47), and music critic (Le Temps), dies at 87
1969 – Philip Blaiberg, South African dentist, third person to receive an artificial heart, dies after 19 days at 59
1992 – Andre de Villiers, South African farmer and ANC informant, murdered at 42
1993 – Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator, dies at 72
1995 – Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer, dies at 62