1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1802 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter, dies at 58
1961 – Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1961 – Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81
1976 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 89
1979 – Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53
1989 – Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome
2011 – Bob Cassilly, American Artist and Founder of the St. Louis City Museum (b. 1949)