1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
1865 – Heinrich Christian Pander, Baltic German biologist and embryologist, dies at 71
1914 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (Le Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
1949 – Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), dies at 66
1952 – Ian Hay [John Hay Beith], British novelist and playwright (Pip, Carrying On), dies at 76
1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1991 – Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash
1997 – Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)