651 – Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
1590 – Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies
1875 – Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49
1940 – George Gauthier, French-Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal, dies at 68
1948 – Andrei A Zjdanov, Rus politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52
1952 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1973 – Raymond Keane, American actor (Midnight Sun, Love Eagle), dies at 66
1979 – E J “Tiger” Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper 1911-14), dies
1993 – Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80
1994 – Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist, dies at 88