1581 – Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer (Praxis rerum criminalium), dies at 73
1666 – Shah Jahan, 5th Mughal Emperor of India (1628-58) who built the Taj Mahal for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, dies at 74
1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist, dies at 47
1879 – Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in Battle of Isandlwana
1931 – Alma Rubens, American actress (Humoresque), dies of Lobar pneumonia and bronchitis at 33
1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, British cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies at 83
2000 – Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska), dies at 83
2007 – Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2007 – Liz Renay [Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins], American actress (Desperate Living), dies at 80
2019 – Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect (Standard-Omnisporthal, Liège), dies at 91