1314 – Jacques de Molay, French last Grand Master of The Knights Templar, dies burned at the stake aged 70 or 71
1745 – Robert Walpole, 1st British Prime Minister (Whig: 1721-42), dies at 68
1781 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
1875 – Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
1913 – George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67
1939 – Henry Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader, dies at 79
1962 – Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1983 – Franco Giorgetti, Italian cyclist (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 80
1995 – Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80
2017 – Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer, dies at 80