1394 – Chōkei, 98th Emperor of Japan (1368-83), dies at 50 or 51 (b. 1343)
1590 – Pope Sixtus V [Felice Piergentile], Pope of the Catholic Church (1585-90), dies at 68
1758 – Barbara of Portugal [Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa], Queen of Spain, dies at 46
1875 – William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1887 – Wilhelm Volckmar, German organ virtuoso, composer, and teacher, dies at 74
1898 – John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson’s Law), dies with three of his children in a mountaineering accident in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland at 49
1948 – Oley Speaks, American composer (On the Road to Mandalay), dies at 74
1979 – Bolesław Szabelski, Polish organist and composer, dies at 82
1983 – William Hitzig, Austrian Maxwell physician, dies at 78
2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)