1466 – Donatello, Florentine artist and Renaissance sculptor, dies at around 80
1812 – Marianne Martinez, Austrian composer, dies at 68
1931 – Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
1958 – Tim Moore, American actor (Amos ‘n’ Andy), dies at 71
1971 – Max Mell, Austria artillery officer and literary (Donauweibchen), dies at 88
1977 – Charles Petrie, British historian known for his study of royalism and Jacobitism (If: A Jacobite Fantasy), dies at 82
1991 – Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82
1992 – Robert Shone, British economist and director-general (NEDC), dies at 86
2010 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941)
2019 – Yasuhiro Takai, Japanese baseball first baseman, designated hitter and broadcaster (NPB record 27 career pinch-hit home runs; Hankyu Braves), dies of kidney failure at 74