1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), dies at 51
1836 – John Molson, Canadian brewer (founded Montreal brewery Molsons), dies at 72
1896 – Francis Channing Barlow, American lawyer, Union general (US Civil War, meet with General John Brown Gordon at Gettysburg), dies from infuenza complications at 62
1993 – Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50
1997 – Helen Foster Snow, American journalist (reported from China in the 1930s), dies at 89
1999 – Brian Moore, Irish novelist (Catholics, Doctor’s Wife), dies at 77
2002 – Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian playwright and film director (Mélodie en sous-sol), dies at 81
2005 – Jimmy Griffin, American pop singer, guitarist and songwriter, (Bread), and Academy Award winner (“For All We Know”), dies of cancer at 61
2010 – Georgy Garanian, Armenian-Russian jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer, dies of cardiac arrest at 75
2013 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (Swept Away; Flash Gordon: Summer Night), dies from pancreatic cancer at 71