1189 – Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1587 – Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed
1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (Ohm’s law), dies at 65
1868 – Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (Boule de Suif), French author, dies at 42
1959 – George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (Hello Dolly), dies of a heart attack at 69
2005 – Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
2005 – L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)