1744 – Andre Campra, French composer, dies at 83
1886 – Aleksandr Ostrovsky [Alexander Ostrovsky], Russian playwright (Artists and Admirers), dies at 63
1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
1948 – John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
1977 – Alan Reed, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) and voice artist (Fred Flintstone, Lady and the Tramp), dies at 69
1989 – Pete de Freitas, British drummer (Echo and the Bunnyman), dies in a motorcycle accident at 27
1995 – Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74
2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81) and 9th President of Austria (1986-92), dies at 88
2008 – Jamelão, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)
2008 – Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1964)