1649 – Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
1768 – Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66
1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist and inventor, dies at 75
1926 – Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, dies at 57
1936 – James Murray, American actor (The Crowd, The Shakedown), drowns at 35
1973 – Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
1993 – Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
1995 – John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70
2007 – Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2014 – Tommy Ramone [Tamás Erdélyi], Hungarian-American rock drummer and bassist (Ramones), dies of bile duct cancer at 65