1657 – Sebastian Stosskopf, Elizabethan painter, dies at 59
1887 – Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
1905 – Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84
1950 – Armen Tigran Tigranyan, Armenian music composer and conductor, dies at 70
1952 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1998 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1969-73), dies at 86
2003 – Ron Ziegler, White House press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion), dies at 75
2010 – Max Schubel, American composer (Opus One Records), dies at 77