1641 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 76
1975 – Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
1986 – Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
1996 – Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61
2010 – Georgy Garanian, Armenian-Russian jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer, dies of cardiac arrest at 75
2013 – Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader, dies at 77
2016 – Monty Irvin, American Baseball HOF outfielder (4 x NgL All-Star, NgL World Series 1946 Newark Eagles; MLB All-Star 1952, World Series 1954 NY Giants), dies at 96
2017 – François Van der Elst, Belgian soccer winger (44 caps; Anderlecht, West Ham Utd), dies from cardiac arrest at 62