1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies at 62
1579 – Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1907 – Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58
1914 – A O Jones, cricketer (12 Tests for England 1899-1909), dies
1956 – Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79
1988 – Bob Steele [Robert Adrian Bradbury], American actor (Monogram, Supreme, Tiffany), dies of Emphysema at 60
1995 – Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72
1997 – Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64
2001 – Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1934)
2013 – Eli Beeding, American Air Force Captain and rocket test pilot, dies at 85