1675 – Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, dies at 65
1795 – Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian librettist and poet, dies at 80
1797 – Josef Antonin Stepan, Bohemian composer, dies at 71
1959 – James Gleason, American writer and actor (Bishop’s Wife, Flying Fool), dies at 76
1971 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1974 – Carl Jaffe, German actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement), dies at 72
1981 – Hans Chemin-Petit, German composer, dies at 78
1996 – William Wilkinson, English conservationist and businessman, dies at 63
1996 – Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82
2012 – Andrew Love, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 70