1011 – Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
1572 – Pierre Certon, French composer
1900 – Ernest Dowson, British poet (Decorations in Verse and Prose), dies at 32
1900 – William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies
1906 – Johann Hoch, US murderer, executed
1971 – King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73
1973 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (Nobel 1956 – development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases), dies at 77
1992 – Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies
2008 – Roger Foulon, Belgian writer (Un été dans la Fagne), dies at 84
2008 – Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot, first to land at Newfoundland Airport on January 11, 1938 (b. 1916)