397 – Saint Ambrose, Governor of Liguria and Bishop of Milan (374-97), dies at about 57
1761 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
1864 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
1957 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
1961 – Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
1979 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51
1991 – Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79
1993 – Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
2004 – Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist, dies at 84
2005 – Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1924)