1793 – Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
1812 – Christian G. Heyne, German scholar and archaeologist, dies at 82
1817 – Madame de Staël [Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein], French-Swiss author (De l’Allemagne), dies at 51
1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder, dies at 60
1897 – John Franklin Farnsworth, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 77
1904 – Paul Kruger, 3rd President of South African Republic (1883-1900) and face of Boer resistance during the Second Boer War, dies of pneumonia at 78
1954 – Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1994 – Taeko Kuwata, Japanese Belgian pianist (Duo Crommelynck), commits suicide at about 47
2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2013 – Matt Batts, American MLB player, dies at 91