1684 – Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian composer and organist, dies at 67
1700 – Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (b. 1662)
1763 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
1787 – Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist, astronomer and philosopher, dies at 75
1901 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
1971 – George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
1976 – Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
1995 – Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
2003 – Vali Myers, Australian painter, dies at 72
2011 – Peter Alexander [Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer], Austrian actor and singer (Who Wants to Sleep?), dies at 84