1109 – King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1662 – Simon Ives, English court composer, dies at 61
1943 – Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1950 – Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1968 – Virginia Weidler, American child actress (Babes on Broadway, All This and Heaven Too), dies of heart disease at 42
1978 – Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1980 – Charles P. Snow, English novelist (Death Under Sail, Strangers and Brothers) and physical chemist, dies at 74
1988 – Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82
1999 – Guy Mitchell [Albert George Cernik], American singer and actor (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle), dies at 72
2009 – Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)