1777 – Spranger Barry, Irish Shakespearean actor, dies at 57
1794 – Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, dies at 39
1811 – Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (Caïus Gracchus), dies at 46
1828 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure, dies at 77
1899 – Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
1956 – Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64
1957 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
1989 – Donald Voorhees, American conductor (Bell Telephone Hour), dies at 85
1994 – Charles “Chub” Feeney, baseball pres (National League), dies at 72
2004 – Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)