988 – Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1531 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1715 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman, dies at 54
1801 – Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
1935 – T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia], British author, soldier and diplomat famous for his liaison role in Arabia during WWI, dies at 46, in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England
1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz musician who virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz, dies at 64
1995 – Robert S. Dietz, American geophysicist who proposed a theory of seafloor spreading in 1961, dies at 80
1996 – Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89
2007 – Bernard Blaut, Polish soccer midfielder (36 caps; KP Legia Warsaw, FC Metz) and manager (UAE), dies at 67
2011 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and former Taoiseach (b. 1926)