1679 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1830 – Johann Georg Repsold, German instrument maker and astronomer, dies at 59
1892 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
1902 – Cato M. Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician and chemist (law of mass action), dies at 65
1945 – Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer, murdered in the Holocaust at 43
1991 – Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
1995 – Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera, dies at 68
2004 – Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal musician (Windir), dies in a snowstorm at 25
2005 – Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2017 – Zhou Youguang [Zhou Yaoping], Chinese language scholar (father of pinyin), dies at 111