618 – St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1811 – Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1873 – Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
1953 – John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1963 – Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), dies at 89