1674 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1703 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer, dies at 77
1800 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general, dies at 47
1824 – Agustín de Betancourt, Spanish civil engineer (steam engines, hot air balloons), dies at 68
1828 – Karl August, grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, dies (b. 1757)
1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist, economist and historian (Ancient Judaism), dies at 56
1948 – Ernst Henrik Ellberg, Swedish composer, dies at 79
1964 – [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81
1975 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
2000 – Paul Griffin, American session musician and pianist, dies at 62