1268 – Conrad Hohenstaufen/Conradin, last Duke of Swabia, beheaded in Naples aged 16
1676 – Christopher Gibbons, British composer, dies at 61
1870 – Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (The Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
1927 – Mikhail Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 78
1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29
1983 – Yves Thériault, French Canadian author, dies at 67
2003 – Čkalja [Miodrag Petrović], Serbian actor and one of the most popular comedians of former Yugoslavia, dies at 79
2005 – Chalmers Goodlin, US test pilot (XS-1), dies at 85
2007 – Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry), dies of a heart attack at 46
2012 – E. Donnall Thomas, American physician (1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for bone marrow transport), dies at 92