1222 – William I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies
1714 – Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV’s grandson, dies
1954 – Vaclav Vackar, composer, dies at 72
1957 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (Bose–Einstein statistics), dies at 80
1975 – Julian Fuhs, German-American jazz pianist and bandleader (Follies Band), dies at 83
2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2012 – Istvan Csurka, Hungarian writer and politician, dies at 77
2016 – Edgar Mitchell, american NASA astronaut (Apollo 14), dies at 85
2018 – Kenneth Haigh, British actor (Look Back in Anger, Search for the Nile), dies at 86