1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch lawyer and statesman, beheaded at 71
1732 – Theodor Schwartzkopff, German composer, dies at 72
1831 – Christian Gottfried Körner, German lawyer, dies at 74
1939 – Stanislaw Lesniewski, Polish logician and mathematician (Warsaw School of Logic), dies at 53
1962 – Frank Jenks, American stage and screen actor (Colonel Flack, Zombies on Broadway), dies of cancer at 59
1962 – Franz Kline, American abstract expressionist painter, dies of heart failure at 51
1971 – Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Russian composer, dies 67
1994 – Duncan Hamilton, Irish racing driver, dies at 74
1999 – Meg Greenfield, American Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer (Washington Post; Newsweek), dies of cancer at 68
2005 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)