1578 – Thomas Stuckley, English adventurer and mercenary, killed at the Battle of Three Kings in Morocco
1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
1718 – René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France, dies at 62
1778 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor of New France, dies at 79
1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American leading Tory politician who supported the British during the American Revolutionary War, dies at 83
1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, essayist, novelist, and painter, dies at 75
1997 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, oldest verified person in history (born 1875), dies at 122 years, 164 days
2011 – Mark Duggan is shot by police in London at 29, sparking widespread riots
2021 – David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker’s Almanack; Bookseller), and proponent of Standard Book Numbering (SBN) system, dies at 90
2021 – Graham McRae, New Zealand auto racer (Tasman Formula 5000 Series 1971, 72, 73; LandM Continental 5000 C’ship 1972), dies at 81
