1598 – Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog) and physician, dies at 63
1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder’s Stand
1811 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, dies at 86
1897 – Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (Variations Symphoniques; Suite Gothique), dies at 35
1946 – Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer, dies at 35
1984 – K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies at 67
1996 – Arthur Walter Lucas, first Chief Restorer of the National Gallery, London, dies at 80
1996 – Johnny Costa [Costanza], American jazz pianist, celeste and accordion player, and musical director (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood), dies at 74
2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (b. 1950)
2014 – Mats Rondin, Swedish cellist, conductor, and educator, dies at 54