1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (founded city of Santa Marta), murdered by some of his men
1655 – Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76
1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1746 – John Peter Zenger, German born journalist and printer working in New York, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies at 48
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain, dies at 76
1878 – George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon, dies at 58
1965 – Minor Watson, American actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75
1980 – Cecil Burleigh, American violinist, composer (Sonnets of Autumn; Boyhood Recollections), and educator (University of Wisconsin, 1921-55), dies at 95
1991 – Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer who was exiled in the Netherlands, dies at 45
2007 – Jim LeRoy, American aerobatics pilot, dies in a plane crash at the Dayton airshow at 46