1531 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d’Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1568 – Don Carlos, son of Spanish King Philip II, dies at about 23
1690 – Richard Gibson, English painter of portrait miniatures and a court dwarf, dies at around 75
1923 – Charles Dupuy, French statesman, 3 times Prime Minister of France (1893, 1894-95, 1898-99), dies at 71
1924 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, dies at 64
1961 – Esther Dale, American actress (Curly Top; The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle films), dies after surgery at 75
1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Judgement at Nuremberg), dies of a heart attack at 45
1994 – Hans J Salter, Austrian-American film composer (The Wolf Man, Christmas Holiday, This Love Of Ours), dies at 98
1996 – John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
2020 – Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian politician, President of Tanzania (1995-2005), dies at 81