635 – Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1860 – Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, The Māori King, dies at Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist, dies at 63
1876 – Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player, dies at 50
1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1903; HR leader 1899, 1903; AL RBI leader 1902, 03; Boston Americans), dies at 77
1978 – Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered
1994 – Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74
1995 – Warren Earl Burger, American judge, US Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
1998 – Lounès Matoub, Kabylian singer-songwriter, guitar and mandole player, and Berber rights activist,, assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) at 42