1101 – Conrad II, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1276 – King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1833 – William Bainbridge, American naval officer, dies at 59
1968 – Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies
1971 – Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1976 – Ray Brennan, retired US Air Force captain, American Legion bookkeeper and the 1st American to die of “Legionnaire’s Disease”, dies of an apparent heart attack at 61
1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1999 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
2011 – Richard Rutt, English bishop of Leicester, dies at 85
2011 – Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer (The Notebook), dies at 75