1578 – Sebastiaan, King of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
1821 – William Floyd, American soldier who signed the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 86
1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter, dies at 39
1942 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer, dies at 81
1981 – Melvyn Douglas [Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg], American actor (Hud, Being There, Ghost Story), dies at 80
1984 – Walter Burke, American actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1995 – J. Howard Marshall [James Howard Marshall II], American businessman and husband of Anna Nicole Smith, dies at 90
2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist and Nobel Prize laureate 1954, dies at 86
2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)