1364 – Charles, Duke of Brittany (“the Saint” beatified 1904), killed in the Battle of Auray at 44 or 45
1862 – William “Bull” Nelson, Union general-major, murdered after an argument by fellow Union officer General Jefferson C. Davis at 38
1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician and temperance movement leader (Rep-IR-Ohio), dies at 86
1967 – Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco, Jolson Sings Again), dies of leukemia at 67
1991 – Sam Ntuli, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, assassinated
1993 – Gordon Douglas, American actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85
2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2008 – Hayden Carruth, American poet (The Crow and the Heart), dies at 87
2014 – Dan Goossen, American boxing promoter (Michael Nunn, Terry Norris, James Toney), dies of liver cancer at 64
2021 – Dom Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambican Roman Catholic Cardinal, Mozambique’s 1st black priest, dies at 97