899 – Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
1643 – John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
1864 – George Boole, English mathematician (Boolean algebra), dies at 49
1914 – Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
1938 – Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
1945 – Richard M. Jones, American jazz pianist, accompanist, songwriter (“Trouble In Mind”), record producer (Louis Armstrong) and label manager (Okeh; Decca; Mercury), dies at 53
1955 – Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), dies at 69
1963 – Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1982 – Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
1990 – Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger’s Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76