1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1894 – PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
1937 – Andrew Mellon, American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82
1966 – Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
1972 – Francis Chichester, English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), dies at 70
1980 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer, dies at 30
1993 – Alan Wharton, English cricketer (England batsman once v NZ 1949, scored 7 and 13), dies at 70
2011 – George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)