1296 – Floris V, Count of Holland and Zeeland, murdered after being captured by local lords in a conspiracy encouraged by the English crown at 41
1794 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1829 – Louis-Sébastien Lebrun, French composer, dies at 64
1876 – Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist, dies at 74
1917 – Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism), dies at 79
1939 – David Werner Amram, American lawyer, legal and Talmudic scholar, Zionist, and author (The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy), dies at 73
1952 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (Dehn’s lemma), dies at 73
1968 – Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for South Africa), dies at 87
1992 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (A Day at the Races; Showboat), dies at 84
2020 – Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger and musician (M*A*S*H theme), dies at 94