1549 – Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1710 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV (1661-67), dies at 65
1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
1840 – Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
1877 – Winand Staring, Dutch geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
1893 – Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), dies at 59
1973 – Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (Roots, The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning), dies at 60
2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2018 – Peter Stringfellow, English nightclub owner (Stringfellows), dies at 77