1536 – William Tyndale, English Protestant bible translator and scholar, is strangled and burned at the stake at 41 or 42 (born c. 1494)
1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, English-Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies of pneumonia at 45
1919 – Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer and poet (Tradiciones Peruanas), dies at 86
1956 – Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1983 – Terence Cooke, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, dies of leukemia at 62
2006 – Wilson Tucker, American sci-fi writer, dies at 91
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
2022 – Ivy Jo Hunter, American RandB songwriter, record producer Motown – “Dancing in the Street”), and singer, dies at 82
2024 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch soccer midfielder (49 caps; Ajax, Barcelona, NY Cosmos) and manager (FC Zug, NEC), dies from a heart attack at 73