1832 – Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, Italian composer, dies at 84
1852 – Samuel Prout, British water color painter, dies at 68
1861 – Francis Danby, Irish painter, dies at 67
1902 – Johann Nepomu Krieger, German Selenographer (lunar maps), dies at 37
1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1961 – Velma Middleton, American jazz vocalist (Louis Armstrong’s big bands and small groups), dies from complications of a stroke at 43
1966 – Billy Rose [William Samuel Rosenberg], American theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
1987 – Ray Colignon (sometimes none as “Coco”), Belgian jazz and easy listening pianist, Hammond organist, and bandleader, dies at 80
1988 – Paolo Renosto, Italian composer, dies at 52
1997 – Matthew Eappen, American child involved in the Louise Woodward court case, dies at 8 months