1170 – Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52
1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away) dies at 64
1933 – Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1943 – William Henry Singer, American painter and collector (Singer Museum, Laren), dies at 75
1965 – KÅsaku Yamada, Japanese composer (Nagauta Symphony), and conductor, dies of a heart attack at 79
1997 – Pat Clarke, British cyclist, dies at 82
1998 – Jeanne Stern, German screenwriter (The Condemned Village), dies at 90
2004 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2014 – Ivor Richardson, New Zealand judge (NZ Court of Appeals), dies at 84