1022 – Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1073 – Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies
1524 – Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician
1749 – Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies
1916 – Manuel Giro, Spanish composer, dies at 68
1941 – Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1956 – Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
1993 – W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
1994 – J C “Jody” Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75
2006 – Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer