1787 – Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45
1820 – Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1851 – George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1856 – James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1897 – Berthold Tours, Dutch-English composer, dies at 58
1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American aviator and polar explorer (1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air – disputed), dies at 68
1969 – John Wyndham, American sci-fi author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
1982 – Horace Gregory, American poet, dies at 83
2009 – Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer