1528 – Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
1729 – Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
1936 – Stanisław Niewiadomski, Polish composer, dies at 76
1959 – “Blind” Willie McTell [McTier], American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist, dies at 61
1971 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76
1989 – Fritz de Jong Edz, Dutch historian (director of IISG), dies (b. 1919)
1992 – Osamu Inaba, Japanese Minister of justice (helped bring down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in Lockheed bribery scandal), dies at 82
2006 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), dies at 82
2011 – Eric Dempster, New Zealand cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, TS 47, 2 wickets; Wellington CA), dies at 86
2016 – Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (“Little B’s Poem”; SFJAZZ Collective), dies of emphysema at 75