1440 – Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged
1858 – Isac Baker Woodbury, American composer, and musicologist (The Dulcimer: Or the New York Collection of Sacred Music), dies at 39
1896 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1941 – Victor Schertzinger, American composer and director (Uptown NY), dies at 53
1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1945 – Paul Pelliot, French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and his discovery of many important Chinese texts among the Dunhuang manuscripts, dies at 67
1979 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and President (1963-79), assassinated by the director of the Korean Intelligence Agency at 61
1980 – Marcello Caetano, last Portuguese prime minister of the Estado Novo regime (1968-1974), dies in exile of a heart attack at 74
1983 – Mike Michalske, American football NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers), dies at 80
2004 – Bobby Ávila, Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (MLB All-Star 1952, 54, 55; AL batting champion 1954; Cleveland Indians), dies of diabetes and lung ailment at 80