460 – Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poetess, dies
1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1713 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1819 – Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66
1882 – Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41
1964 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90
1972 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (Sun’s position in galaxy), dies at 86
1987 – Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (theory of probability), dies at 84
2011 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, political theorist and dictator (1969-2011), beaten to death in captivity by a Misratan militia at between 68–71
2016 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountain-climber, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest, dies at 77