1662 – Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria and Regent of the Tyrol, dies at 34
1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
1896 – José Rizal, Filipino nationalist and novelist (‘Noli Me Tángere’, ‘El Filibusterismo’), executed by firing squad at 35
1899 – James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1966 – Christian Herter, American Republican politician, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (1953-57) and US Secretary of State (1959-61), dies at 71
1999 – Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world’s oldest living person (b. 1880)
2010 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)
2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist (Nobel 1986), dies at 103
2018 – Larry Austin, American classical and electronic composer and educator, dies at 88
2022 – Barbara Walters, American broadcast journalist and 1st female nightly network news anchor (Today; 20/20; ABC-TV; The View), dies at 93