1686 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian and Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies at 80
1772 – Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein and general, dies at 75
1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 79
1822 – Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (Eugene Onegin), killed in a duel at 37
1902 – J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
2003 – Ron Ziegler, White House press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), dies at 89
2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricket all-rounder, writer and broadcaster (61 Tests, top score 134, 132 wickets; BBC), dies in a fire in his retirement flat at 87