1283 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China and scholar-general in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, executed at 46
1653 – John Haynes, 5th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 58
1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1828 – Pieter ‘t Hoen, Dutch journalist and patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
1879 – Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86
1958 – Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes), dies at 77
1966 – Haro Levoni Step’anian, Armenian composer, dies at 68
1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent, Grand Illusion), dies at 77
1994 – Silas Hogan, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 82
2006 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)