1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1711 – Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
1719 – Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer, dies at 59
1909 – Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, Danish composer, dies at 76
1919 – Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies
1930 – Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
1993 – Bertie Clarke, cricketer (6 wkts for WI in 1939), dies
1995 – Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82
1997 – Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81
2010 – Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-French-American mathematician (proved Zipf’s law), dies at 85