474 – Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1769 – Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1919 – Prince John of the United Kingdom, youngest son of English king George V, dies at 13
1967 – Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
1967 – Albert Conti, Austrian actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion), dies at 79
1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
1985 – Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Muslim leader, hanged at 76
1992 – Tom Elios, entertainer, dies
1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
2016 – Michel Tournier, French writer (Friday, or, The Other Island), dies at 91