1535 – Sir Thomas More, philosopher, author (Utopia) and statesman, executed (beheaded) for treason at 57
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (Boule de Suif), dies four days after trying to commit suicide by cutting his throat at 42
1934 – Edward Vermeulen, Flemish writer, dies at 73
1952 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1961 – Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
1973 – Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1980 – Gail Patrick [Margaret Fitzpatrick], American actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy), dies of leukemia at 69
1982 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player, dies at 76
1991 – Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (Rex Morgan, M.D.), dies at 79
2009 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)