1405 – Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
1750 – Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer, dies at 70
1814 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (1804-14) and Queen of Italy (1805-10) as the first wife of Napoleon I, dies of pneumonia at 50
1883 – Marianne, Princess of the Netherlands, wife of Prince Albert of Prussia (dissolved 1849), Dutch unconventional princess who left her marriage, dies at 73
1885 – Alfred Meissner, Austrian poet (Ziska), dies at 62
1921 – Horace Porter, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 84
1935 – Josef Suk, Czech violinist (Bohemian String Quartet, 1891-1933), composer (Asrael Symphony; Ripening; Serenade for Strings), and educator, dies at 61
1973 – Voltaire “Volly” De Faut; American jazz reed player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings; Jean Goldkette), dies at 69
1973 – P. Ramlee [Teuku Puteh], Malaysian actor, filmmaker, pop singer and musician, dies of a heart attack at 44
1977 – Ba Maw, Burmese politician, lawyer, and first Burma Premier (1937-9), dies at 84