1345 – Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
1776 – Nathan Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged by the British for spying at 21
1960 – Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78
1978 – Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
1987 – Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27
1994 – Teddy [John Edward] Buckner, American trumpeter (Dixieland music), dies at 85
1994 – Edward Shackleton, English explorer, geographer and Labour Party politician, dies at 83
1997 – Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister, dies at 77
2003 – Hugo Young, British journalist (The Guardian), dies at 64
2008 – Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)