1656 – Prince Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian nobleman, Duke of Amalfi, and field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire, dies at 56
1851 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist, dies at 72
1890 – John Henry Newman, British thologian (Tract 90), educator, poet (Dream of Gerontius), Anglican priest, Catholic priest, cardinal and saint, dies of pneumonia at 89
1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player, dies at 67
1988 – Jean-Pierre Ponnele, French opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1996 – Mel Taylor, American rock drummer (The Ventures, 1962-73 and 1979-96), dies of cancer at 63
2005 – James Booth [David Geeves], British actor and screenwriter (Zulu, Keeping Mum), dies at 77
2010 – Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Scottish Conservative politician (1959-2001), dies at 86
2022 – Darius Danesh, Scottish pop, opera, and swing singer-songwriter (Colourblind; Live Twice) and stage actor, dies of respiratory arrest at 41