1456 – Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle
1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
1948 – Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
1968 – Upton Beall Sinclair, American author (Jungle), dies at 90
1974 – Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26
1981 – Morris Kirksey, American 4 X 100m (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 86
1989 – Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Gov-General, dies
1994 – Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69
1995 – Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist, dies at 92