1460—— James II, King of Scots (born in 1430).
1906 —— Li, a famous novelist in China in the late Qing Dynasty and author of The Current Situation in Officialdom, passed away.
1954 —— Colette, French woman writer (born in 1873).
1968-China essayist Yang Shuo passed away.
1978- 10 General Luo Ruiqing passed away.
1992 —— Wang Hongwen, former vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was a member of the Gang of Four (born in 1935).
2004-Henri Cartier-Bray, French photographer (born in 1908).
2008-Nobel Prize in Literature laureate and famous writer Solzhenitsyn dies at his home in Moscow at the age of 90 due to heart failure. (Born in 19 18).