1674 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest, dies at 68-ish
1735 – John Eccles, English composer (Master of the King’s Musick for four monarchs), dies (b. 1668)
1925 – Oskar Brefeld, German botanist and founder of modern mycology, dies at 85
1965 – Porcupine, in the National Zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent (Washington, DC)
1991 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Le Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
2000 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2001 – William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (co-founder Hewlett-Packard), dies of a heart attack at 87
2009 – Russ Conway, Canadian-American character actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye), dies at 95
2021 – John Ward, New Zealand cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests; 17 dismissals), dies at 83
2022 – Everett Lee, American violinist, and theater and classical conductor (Cosmopolitan Little Symphony, 1947-55; Norrkoping Symphony, 1962-72), dies at 105