927 – Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)
1508 – Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan (1494-1508) who commissioned The Last Supper, dies at 55
1781 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist, dies at 64
1896 – Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1896 – Allard Pierson, Dutch theologist, philosopher and art historian, dies at 65
1933 – Jean de Merode, Belgian lieutenant colonel, Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium, and Prince de Merode, dies at 65
1953 – Jesse Burkett, American Baseball HOF left fielder (NL batting champion 1895-96, 1901; 240 hits in 1896 MLB record for 15 years; Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos/Cardinals), dies at 84
1989 – Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies
1992 – Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
2018 – Donald Herod Peterson, American USAF Colonel, and NASA astronaut (STS-6), dies of Alzheimer’s disease and bone cancer, at 84