1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1687 – Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1760 – Antoine Court, French minister and itinerant preacher in the Reformed church who restored Protestantism to France, dies at 69
1858 – Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder, dies at 74
1976 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Prime Minister of South Vietnam, dies at 68
1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (Escape, Romeo and Juliet), dies at 82
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird; Spellbound; Gentleman’s Agreement), dies of bronchopneumonia at 87
2011 – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi poet and writer, dies at 63
2021 – Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater (record 6 x World Sprint Champion; Olympic silver 1994; bronze 1988), dies from COVID-19 at 57
2021 – Anatoly Chukanov, Russian cyclist (Olympic gold Soviet Union team time trial 1976; UCI Road World C’ships gold 1977), dies at 67
