1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
1906 – Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans, Dutch geographer and astronomer, dies at 78
1965 – Hermann Sandby, Danish cellist and composer, dies at 84
1979 – Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies at 56
1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989 – Jock Mahoney [Jacques Joseph O’Mahoney], American actor and stuntman (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury), dies of a stroke at 70
1991 – Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who), dies of kidney failure at 51
2016 – Karel Husa, Czech-American Pulitzer prize winning composer (Trojan Women), dies at 95
2020 – Eric Freeman, Australian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 34 wickets, 2 x 50s; South Australia), dies from a heart attack at 76