625 – Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies
1845 – Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81
1910 – Hermann Kipper, German music teacher and composer, dies at 84
1957 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish sci-fi writer (Time and Gods), dies at 79
1972 – Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72
1980 – Virgil Fox, American organist, dies at 68
1988 – Johnnie Richardson, American RandB musician (Johnnie and Joe), dies at 53
1993 – Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
1994 – Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
1999 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (US Open 1991, 99; PGA 1989), dies in a plane crash at 42