1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
1534 – Elizabeth Barton [St Magd of Kent], English nun, prophet and only woman whose head was on a spike on London Bridge, hanged for treason
1632 – Nicolas Antoine, French Protestant theologian who attempted to convert to Judaism, burned at the stake for heresy aged about 30 in Geneva, Switzerland
1820 – James Morris III, American army officer in the American Revolutionary War (Siege of Yorktown), dies at 68
1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player, dies at 64
1970 – Paul Celan [Antschell], German-Romanian poet (Collected Prose), drowns himself at 49
1977 – Wilmer Allison, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1935), dies at 72
1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet) and comedian, dies at 103
2021 – Tempest Storm [Annie Blanche Banks], American burlesque and film performer, dies at 93
2021 – Leslie McKeown, Scottish pop vocalist (Bay City Rollers – “Saturday Night”), dies at 65