900 – Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon monarch who was King of Wessex and King of the Anglo-Saxons, dies at 50 or 51
1132 – Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered
1773 – Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1864 – William T. Anderson [Bloody Bill], American Civil War Pro-Confederate rebel guerrilla leader (Lawrence Massacre, Centralia Massacre), killed in battle by union troops at 23 or 24
1867 – John Fawcett, English composer, dies at 77
1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian Soviet children’s writer, killed in combat at 37
1961 – Milan Stojadinović, Serbian-Yugoslav political figure and 12th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73
1995 – Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, dies at 79
2007 – Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2021 – Glen Tuckett American college basbeall coach (Brigham Young Uni 1959-76) and administrator (BYU athletic director 1976-94), dies at 93