1056 – Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981)
1422 – Henry V, King of England (1413-22) and France (1416-19), dies at 36
1590 – Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies
1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician, dies at 66
1688 – John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim’s Progress), dies
1918 – Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WWI), dies at 36
1920 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist, psychologist and philosopher, dies at 88
1931 – Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies
1990 – Johnny Lindsay, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1947), dies
1996 – Harald Penrose, British test pilot, dies at 92