1312 – Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall and favourite of Edward II of England beheaded at 27 or 28
1542 – Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer
1584 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1939 – Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
1957 – Karl Plagge, German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position as a staff officer in the German Army to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews, dies at 59
1962 – Will Wright, American actor (Adam’s Rib, Living Christ Story), dies of cancer at 68
1964 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (Hello Service Man, Once Upon a Time), dies at 83
1988 – Zdeněk Blažek, Czech composer and music theorist (Verchovina), dies at 83
1996 – Ande Anderson, English opera director, dies at 78
2013 – Bojidar Dimov, Bulgarian pianist and composer (Die Hochzeit von Susa), dies at 61