1324 – Petronilla de Meath, Irish maidservant, first person in Ireland or Great Britain to be burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy, at about 24
1584 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (1564-84), dies at 46
1711 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian Baroque composer, dies at 60
1794 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 79
1919 – Terauchi Masatake, Japanese soldier and politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1916-18), dies at 67
1959 – Friedrich Niggli, Swiss composer (Buechfinkeliedli; Nach dem Regen), dies at 83
1960 – Paul Willis, American actor (The Little Lumberjack; Little Kaintuck), dies at 59
1969 – Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish soccer striker (16 caps; Fenerbahçe), dies at 71
1986 – E. Cuyler Hammond, American epidemiologist (first to link smoking with lung cancer), dies at 74
2001 – Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English art historian (The Story of Art), dies at 92