1035 – Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1434 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet (Tamburlaine the Great), stabbed to death in a pub brawl in Deptford at about 29
1870 – Gustave Vogt, French composer, dies at 89
1916 – John S. Mosby, Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War, dies at 82
1967 – Claude Rains, British actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca), dies at 77
1992 – Leen ‘t Hart, Dutch organist and composer, dies at 72
1995 – Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
1996 – Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
1996 – Leon-Etienne Duval, French prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church in Algeria, dies at 92