1633 – Simon Besler, German composer, dies at 49
1814 – William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British military leader (commander of British forces in the American Revolutionary War), dies at 84
1975 – Carl Snavely, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Bucknell, North Carolina, Cornell 180–96–16), dies at 80
1988 – Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific), dies at 79 of palsy
1993 – Dan Eldon, British-Kenyan photojournalist, killed in Somalia while working for Reuters at 22
1994 – Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
1995 – Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
1999 – Bill Owen [William Owen Rowbotham], British actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Not So Dusty), dies from pancreatic cancer at 85
2013 – Pran Krishan Sikand, Indian actor often cast as the villain in Hindi cinema (Khandaan, Be-Imaan), dies of pneumonia at 93
2018 – Tom Gallagher, American diplomat, gay activist, and 1st Foreign Service officer to publicly come out in 1976, dies at 77