1565 – Jean, Vicomte d’Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1763 – French van Mieris “the Young”, painter/historian, dies at 73
1854 – Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), dies at 57
1883 – George Coulthard, Australian rules footballer and cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies at 27
1934 – Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, American gangster and FBI Most Wanted criminal, shot dead at 30 by the FBI in Ohio
1952 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, dies at 78
1969 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1986 – Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty’s Trail), dies at 68
2002 – Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2012 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, dies at 89