1485 – Richard III, King of England (1483-85), killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field at 32
1609 – Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1801 – Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1796-1801), dies at 46
1866 – George Shillibeer, pioneer of London’s 1st bus service, dies
1917 – Matthijs Maris [Thijs], Dutch painter and etcher influenced by Pre-Raphaelites, dies at 78
1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist (Nobel Prize for Literature 1937), dies at 77
1979 – Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69
1991 – Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
2015 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator, dies at 88