1531 – Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1900 – Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle
1935 – Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor and composer, dies at 64
1946 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and songwriter (Tea for Two), dies at 47
1954 – Claude Delvincourt, composer, dies at 66
1960 – Alma Kruger, actor (Made For Each Other), dies at 88
1979 – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
1994 – Aubrey Joseph Watson Sr., bishop, dies at 65
1994 – Kurt Cobain, American grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide at 27 by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun
2007 – Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)