1841 – Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
1857 – John Wilson Croker, politician
1886 – Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
1929 – Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and feminist, dies at 75
1960 – FranFrank Lloyd, Scotland, actor and director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist, Blood on the Sun), dies at 74
1970 – Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52
1993 – Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
1995 – Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2007 – James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)