1633 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera “Dafne”, dies at 71
1750 – Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter (portrait of sovereign Johan von de Pfalz), dies at 86
1896 – Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
1970 – Glenn Hartranft, American athlete (discus WR 47.89m 1925; Olympic silver shot putt 1924), dies at 68
1983 – Giff Vivian, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (7 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 100, 17 wickets; Auckland), dies at 70
1990 – Sara Seegar [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
1996 – Anthony Parsons, British diplomat and British Ambassador to Iran during Iranian Revolution (1974-79), dies at 73
1999 – John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, dies at 75
2007 – Elizabeth Murray, American abstract expressionist painter, and printmaker known for her use of shaped canvases, dies of lung cancer at 66
2007 – Ian McGeoch, Scottish Vice-Admiral with Royal Navy (submarine HMS Splendid WWII), dies at 93