1744 – Immanuel J. Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1790 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1834 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
1923 – Louis Ganne, French composer, dies at 61
1951 – Sammy Jones, cricketer (last survivor of the 1882 Oval Test), dies
1958 – Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1974 – Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, dies at 83
1990 – Philip Leacock, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2012 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier, dies at 83