1337 – Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49
1893 – Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), dies at 59
1896 – Wyatt Eaton, Canadian-American artist, dies from tuberculosis at 47
1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Quebec), dies at 79
1957 – Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
1983 – Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
1994 – Dennis Potter, British TV dramatist (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, Midnight Movie), dies of cancer at 59
1995 – Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
2009 – Hugh Hopper, British musician (Soft Machine), dies at 64
2011 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish-French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z), dies at 87