1402 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, duke and tyrant of Milan (1395-1402), dies at 51
1658 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and puritan Lord Protector of England (1653-58), dies at 59
1790 – Thomas Norris, English composer, dies at 49
1808 – John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1857 – Heinrich Lichtenstein, German zoologist, botanist and explorer who collected plants in Southern Africa, dies at 77
1908 – Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, Dutch jurist and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1888-93), dies at 61
1940 – Vilhelm Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Sak och sken, Hafvets Stjärna), dies at 59
1951 – Robert Hernried, Austrian born American composer and conductor, dies at 67
1982 – Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, Italian general who fought the mafia, murdered by Sicilian mafia at 61
1987 – Viktor Nekrasov, Ukrainian journalist and novelist (V okopakh Stalingrada – Front-line Stalingrad; Kira Georgijevna), dies at 76