1531 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, dies at 82
1933 – Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), dies 23 days after being shot in Miami at 59
1951 – Ivor Novello [David Ivor Davies], Welsh composer, writer and actor (Keep the Home Fires Burning, The Truth Game), dies at 58
1986 – Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier’s Story), dies
1994 – Moses Rascoe, American blues singer, dies at 77
1995 – Delroy Wilson, Jamaican singer, dies at 46
1997 – Anthony Hopkins, English clinical neurologist and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, dies at 59
1999 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, 1st emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), dies of a heart attack at 65
2000 – Chris Balderstone, English cricket batsman (England, belated faced WI in 1976), dies at 59