1223 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
1887 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis), dies at 66
1923 – Johannes van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1945 – H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
1974 – Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
1996 – Paul Harrhy, actor and opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
1998 – Ray Nitschke, American football player, dies of a heart attack at 61
2004 – Abu Abbas [Muhammad Zaidan], Palestinian founder of the Palestine Liberation Front, dies in American custody of allegedly natural causes at 55
2018 – Sir Wilson Harris, Guyanese author (Palace of the Peacock, Jonestown, The Ghost of Memory), dies of natural causes at 96