1396 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1693 – Willem Kalf, Dutch ‘Golden Age’ painter (Still life with nautilus beaker and porcelain lidded bowl), dies at 73 or 74 [exact birthday in 1619, unknown]
1750 – John V, King of Portugal (1706-50), dies at 60
1784 – Denis Diderot, French enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), dies at 70
1864 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette), dies at 64
1871 – Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary), dies at 46
1952 – N B F “Tufty” Mann, cricketer (South African slow lefty 1947-51), dies
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist (Nobel 1938-work on carotenoids and vitamins), dies at 66
1978 – Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places), dies at 80
2022 – Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and 12th President of the Philippines (1992-98), dies at 94