1590 – Cujacius [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68
1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
1830 – Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall, dies at 71
1863 – Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (1st Dutch PM as Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1848), dies at 69
1961 – Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Bishop of the Russian Church and Orthodox missionary, dies at 81
1970 – Curtis Turner, American auto racer (184 NASCAR races over 17 years, 17 wins), dies in aeroplane crash at 46
1975 – May Sutton, American tennis player (first American woman to win Wimbledon singles title 1905), dies at 89
1982 – Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal and President of Iraq (1968-79), dies at 68
2013 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general (Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam War) and politician, dies at 102
2013 – Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (Conversations; A Diary of the Sea), dies at 80