552 – Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle
1633 – Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies
1864 – Juan José Flores, General and first President of Ecuador (1839-1845), dies at 64
1943 – Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24
1961 – Donald Cook, American actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
1972 – Louis Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (Olduvai Gorge), dies at 68
1993 – Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75
2000 – Reginald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
2014 – Lynsey de Paul, British singer and actress (Sugar Me), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 66
2015 – Don Edwards, American politician and civil rights champion (Rep-D-CA, 1963-94), dies at 100