754 – Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79
1568 – Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1900 – Stephen Crane, American novelist (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1902 – Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1927 – Paul Lacombe, French composer, dies at 89
1939 – Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
1970 – “Jopie” Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
1970 – Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
2015 – Richard Johnson, British stage and screen actor and producer (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door), dies at 87
2019 – Robert Earle, American TV host (GE College Bowl), dies at 93