1687 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
1855 – Gottfried Rieger, Czech composer, dies at 91
1919 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist (1948 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering effects of DDT), dies at 66
1981 – Nils Asther ‘the male Greta Garbo’, Swedish actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
1991 – Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies at 70
1993 – Gwen Wells, American actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42
1997 – Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies
2009 – Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (b. 1935)
2012 – Marc Awodey, American artist and writer, dies at 51