644 – Omar I, 2nd Caliph of Islam (634-44), oversaw conquest of Persia and Egypt, murdered at 59 or 60
1680 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
1768 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter, dies at 66
1963 – Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1982 – André Kamperveen, Suriname footballer, politician, administrator, and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military at 58
1992 – William Shawn, American magazine editor (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
1993 – Carlotta Monti [Montijo], American actress and memoirist (W. C. Fields and Me), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 86
2015 – Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano, dies at 90
2016 – Florence Finch, Filipino-American war hero who fought against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, dies at 101
2018 – Evelyn Berezin, American computer pioneer, invented first word processor, dies at 93
