1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch lawyer and statesman, beheaded at 71
1839 – Joseph Fesch, French cardinal, diplomat and senator (Uncle of Napoleon), dies at 76
1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician, dies at 69
1873 – Kaspar Masek, Czech-Slovenian composer, dies at 79
1878 – Joseph Henry, American scientist and pioneer of electromagnetism, dies at 80
1882 – Jules Nicolas Crevaux, French naval doctor and explorer (French Guiana and the Amazon), murdered at 35
1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist (1920 Nobel Prize for Physics), dies at 77
1974 – Denny Shute, American golfer (British Open 1933, PGA C’ship 1936-37), dies at 69
1988 – (Chesney) “Chet” Baker, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (“My Funny Valentine”), falls to his death from an Amsterdam hotel balcony at 59
2015 – Robert Drasnin, American clarinetist, composer, and film and television music supervisor (CBS, 1977-91), dies after a fall at 87