1258 – Al-Musta’sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, dies in the sack of Baghdad by being rolled up in a carpet and trampled to death
1626 – John Dowland, British (or Irish?) Renaissance lutenist, singer, and composer (“I saw my Lady weepe”; “Flow My Tears”), dies and is buried at 63
1771 – Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist, dies at 92
1809 – Johann Joseph Emmert, German composer, dies at 76
1871 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter, dies at 60
1980 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), dies at 84
1984 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer (Azerbaijan Capriccio, Shur), dies at 61
1987 – Ivan Brkanović, Croatian composer (Triptych – Funeral Folk Rite), dies at 80
1996 – Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69
2021 – Stan Williams, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1960²; World Series 1959, 1990 [coach: Cincinnati Reds]; NY Yankees, LA Dodgers), dies from cardio-pulmonary illness at 84