1324 – Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller, poet and chronicler, dies
1552 – Heinrich Faber, German singer, music theorist, and composer, dies at about 52
1901 – Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
1918 – Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, Spanish violinist and composer, dies at 74
1941 – Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death
1947 – Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
1966 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian independence activist and writer (The Indian War of Independence), dies at 82
2005 – Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
2012 – Rolf “Hazy” Osterwald, Swiss jazz bandleader, trumpeter, and vibraphonist, dies at 90
2021 – Aleksandr Klepikov, Russian rower (Olympic gold Soviet Union coxed four 1976), dies at 70