1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (radiant light), dies at 56
1939 – Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
1951 – Ebbe Hamerik, Danish composer, dies at 52
1968 – Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian New Testament scholar, dies at 85
1975 – Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
1988 – Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1988 – Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25
1989 – John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies
2001 – Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
2018 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-British writer (Middle Passage), dies at 85