1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 – Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Italian composer
1854 – Willard Richards, American physician and religious leader, dies at 49
1898 – William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1907 – Jean Casimir-Périer, French politician (President of France 1894-95), dies at 59
1947 – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, British composer (Carol Symphony), dies of pneumonia at 45
1979 – Victor Kilian, American actor (Gentleman’s Agreement), dies at 88
1996 – Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
2002 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)