1754 – Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51
1811 – Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (Caïus Gracchus), dies at 46
1901 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
1978 – Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
1992 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
1993 – Diana Adams, ballerina, dies
1996 – Arthur Sydney Martin, spycatcher, dies at 81
1997 – Alexander R. Todd, British chemist (Nobel Prize 1957), dies at 89
2017 – Clare Hollingworth, British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, dies at 105
2020 – Petko Petkov, Bulgarian soccer forward (33 caps; Beroe Stara Zagora, Austria Wien), dies at 73