1358 – Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
1566 – Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92
1653 – Thomas Dudley, British colonial governor of Massachusetts, dies at 76
1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1854 – Samuel Wilson, American meat packer and possible namesake of Uncle Sam, dies at 87
1943 – Hedley Verity, English cricket spin bowler (40 Tests, 144 wickets @ 24.37), dies in POW camp in Italy at 38
1951 – J of Oudshoorn [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences), dies
1994 – G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
1994 – Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
2009 – Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)