1052 – Emma of Normandy, Norman-born Queen and influential consort of England, Denmark and Norway (wife of Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great, mother of Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut), dies
1836 – James “Jim” Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (Texas Revolution), dies during Battle of Alamo at 39
1878 – Julius Caesar, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia and NZ 1864-5; Surrey CCC), dies from dropsy at 47
1933 – Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), dies 23 days after being shot in by an assassin targeting Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, Florida at 59
1968 – Isa Krejci, Czech composer, dies at 63
1971 – Raymond Herreman, Belgian poet, journalist and writer (Jericho’s Rose), dies at 74
1976 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer, actor (world light heavyweight champion 1932-34), dies of Paget’s disease of bone at 68
1981 – Klaus Grabowski, German alleged murderer and convicted sex offender, shot and killed in Lübeck District Court by Marianne Bachmeier the mother of the daughter he was accused of murdering
2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, dies in a car crash at 50
2021 – Jeremiah Harman, British jurist, known as “the kicking Judge”, dies of cancer at 90