1113 – Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies
1264 – Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 5th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1756-57), dies at 44
1860 – Louis Hersent, painter, dies
1956 – George Bancroft, American actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74
1969 – Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85
1974 – Ina Seidel, German poet and novelist, dies at 89
1991 – Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
1995 – Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
2007 – George Grizzard, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica), dies at 79