775 – Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75), dies
1535 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden, dies at 21
1900 – William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1902 – John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68
1961 – Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65
1984 – Anatoly Novikov, Soviet composer, dies at 87
1987 – O. B. McClinton, American country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47
1996 – Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
2001 – Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2005 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (Founder of FALN), dies at 72