1268 – Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, beheaded
1813 – Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle
1897 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1918 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), dies from the flu at 31
1988 – Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
1992 – Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44
1993 – Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
1996 – Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84
1996 – Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71
2005 – Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)