1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
1909 – Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60
1916 – Otto Ammon, German anthropologist and sociologist (schedelmetingen), dies at 73
1952 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1961 – Ernest Thesiger, English actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
1966 – Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies
1977 – Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (Gödel’s incompleteness theorems), dies at 71
2006 – Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
2018 – Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor (Blast from the Past, Frank’s Place), dies at 74