1392 – Willem Cuser, earl Albrecht of Beierens, murdered
1777 – John Bartram, naturalist and explorer, father of American botany, dies at 77
1796 – George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday
1923 – Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse
1960 – Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78
1965 – Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American bridge engineer, dies at 86
1975 – Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
1975 – Franz Salmhofer, composer, dies at 75
1988 – Rezso Sugar, Hungarian composer, dies at 68
1991 – Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies