710 – Rupert of Salzburg, saint and Bishop of Worms and Salzberg
1472 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet and translator, dies at 37
1826 – Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, dies at 63
1989 – May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
1995 – Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
2001 – Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann], Canadian actor (The Phantom Planet, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), dies at 88
2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport’s FIA, dies at 86
2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
2016 – Mother Angelica, Catholic American Franciscan nun, dies at 92
2017 – David Storey, British novelist and playwright (This Sporting Life), dies at 83