1508 – Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55
1564 – John Calvin [Jehan Cauvin], Protestant religious reformer and theologian (Calvinism), dies at 54 (b. 1509)
1580 – Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies
1596 – Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
1896 – Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1958 – Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
2006 – Craig Heyward, American NFL fullback (Pro Bowl 1995; New Orleans Saints), dies from brain cancer at 39
2007 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2011 – Gill Scott-Heron, American writer, poet and singer (Whitey on the Moon), dies at 62