635 – Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1710 – Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 74
1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer, dies at 86
1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1954 – Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74
1956 – Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDs at 57
1996 – Nicholas John, dramaturge, dies at 43
2007 – Nina Vyroubova, Russian-French ballerina (Pavlova-prize 1957), dies at 86