1544 – René van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25
1610 – Caravaggio [Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio], Italian painter, (Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy), dies at 38
1721 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter (fêtes galantes), dies at 36
1833 – Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
1937 – Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1938 – Marie, last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I (1914-27), dies at 62
1963 – A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies
2004 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist, dies at 92
2007 – Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, Scottish judge and advocate, dies after a stroke at 82
2021 – John Woodcock, English cricket journalist (‘The Times’ 1954-88; Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1981-86; President Cricket Writers’ Club 1986-2004), dies at 94