1025 – Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies
1793 – Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary who murdered Jean-Paul Marat in a bath, is guillotined at 24
1826 – Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1864 – Daniel McCook Jr, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 29
1918 – Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia (1894-1917), executed at 50
1918 – Alexei Trupp, Russian footman and assistant of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 62
1970 – Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor , dies at 82
1985 – Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
1999 – Kevin Wilkinson, English drummer (The Waterboys), commits suicide at 41