1661 – Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1849 – Lajos, Count Batthyany, 1st Prime Minister of Hungary, executed by firing squad at 42
1885 – Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 67
1905 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and explorer, dies at 72
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg’s cereal brand), dies at 91
1951 – Otto Meyerhof, German psychologist and biochemist (Nobel 1922), dies at 67
1991 – Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2015 – Billy Joe Royal, American country and pop singer (Down in the Boondocks), dies at 73