1597 – Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies
1875 – Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul, French composer, dies at 84
1910 – Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, cofounder and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, dies at 65
1940 – Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Blokkade, Ghetto, Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald [née Sayre], American writer (This Side of Paradise) and wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, dies at 47
1966 – Mari Sandoz, American author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
1980 – Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (Making a Poem), dies at 100
1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor, dies at 79
2010 – Édgar Valcárcel, Peruvian pianist and composer, dies at 77
2016 – Anita Brookner, English novelist (Hotel du Lac) and art historian, dies at 87