1389 – Dimitri Ivanovitch “Donskoi”, monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal, dies at 39
1672 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
1880 – Bernard ter Haar, Dutch poet (Herbert and Clara) and church historian, dies at 74
1943 – André Antoine, French actor and stage manager (founded Théâtre-Libre), dies at 85
1992 – Diane Varsi, actress (Allison-Peyton Place, Bloody Mama), dies at 54
2004 – Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
2011 – Basil D’Oliveira, English cricket all-rounder (44 Tests, 2,484 @ 40.06, 47 wickets), dies form Parkinson’s disease at 80
2014 – Mike Nichols [Mikhail Peschkowsky], German-American film director (Catch 22, The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), dies from cardiac arrest at 83
2015 – Rex Reason, American actor (This Island Earth, Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s), dies at 86