1598 – Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58
1621 – Charles d’Albert, duc of Luynes, French courtier, favourite of Louis XIII and Constable of France, dies at 43
1934 – Maggie L. Walker, African-American teacher and businesswoman (1st female Bank President), dies at 69
1953 – Kishio Hirao, Japanese composer, dies at 46
1971 – Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1984 – Frank Spedding, Canadian chemist whose uranium extraction process helped make possible the first atomic bomb, dies at 82
1986 – Serge Lifar, Russian-French dancer, choreographer (Paris Opera Ballet), dies at 81
1991 – Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55
2008 – León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian politician (President of Ecuador 1984-88), dies at 77
2011 – Christopher Hitchens, English author and journalist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman), dies of oesophageal cancer aged 62