1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
1878 – Mark Hopkins, American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad), dies at 64
1930 – Anton Bettelheim, Austrian writer, dies at 78
1948 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian ‘Functionalist’ architect (Pärnu Beach Hotel), dies at 66
1953 – Arthur Fields [Abraham Finkelstein], American singer-songwriter (Aba Daba Honeymoon), dies in a fire at his nursing home residence at 68
1955 – Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely pamphlet), dies at 81
1980 – Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
2020 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (“Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima”), dies at 86