1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
1862 – William “Bull” Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38
1925 – Léon-Victor-Auguste Bourgeois, French Prime Minister (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74
1954 – William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet and scholar, dies at 73
1964 – Robert Burton, American actor (The Big Heat, Compulsion, A Man Called Peter), dies from cancer at 69
1982 – Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
2006 – Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricket batsman (11 Tests; father of Richard and Dayle), dies from a stroke at 91
2009 – Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian cosmonaut (Vostok IV, Soyuz 14), dies at 78
2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast) (b.1965)