1742 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1832 – Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], French naturalist and zoologist, dies at 62
1839 – Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, founded Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1925 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and revolutionary, dies in prison under mysterious circumstances at 46
1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate and the fourth vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, dies at 68
1939 – Stanislaw Lesniewski, Polish logician and mathematician (Warsaw School of Logic), dies at 53
1982 – Gara Garayev [Kara Karayev], Soviet-Azerbaijani composer (Seven Beauties), dies at 64
1996 – John “Jack” Baines, British mountaineering publisher, dies at 57
2006 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
2020 – Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Der Stellvertreter), dies at 89