1737 – Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83
1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
1957 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian film director and actor (Sunset Boulevard, Blind Husbands, La Grande Illusion), dies at 71
1977 – Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer and erotic poet, dies at 67
1986 – Lee Bonnell, American actor, dies at 67
1987 – Victor Feldman, British jazz pianist and drummer, dies at 53 of a heart attack
1992 – Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
1999 – Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)
1999 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator (The New Yorker), dies at 84
2014 – H. R. Giger, Swiss Oscar-winning surrealist artist, dies from injuries from a fall at 74