1567 – Shane O’Neill, Irish chieftain
1750 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German organist, Benedictine priest, choirmaster, and composer (Augsburger Tafel-Confect), dies of gout at 68
1812 – Jan William de Winter, Dutch admiral (commanded Dutch navy in Battle of Campertown), dies at 51
1833 – Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle boxer (Irish heavyweight champion), dies as a result of boxing match injuries at 27
1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1977 – Stephen Boyd [William Millar], Irish actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur), dies of a heart attack at 45
1993 – French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 86
1997 – Charles Jones, Canadian contemporary classical composer and music educator, dies at 86
2003 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler, manager and subject of “My Breakfast with Blassie”, dies of heart and kidney failure at 85