1698 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (Fête de Vénus), dies at 56
1782 – Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter, dies at 67
1940 – Willem Adriaan Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63
1967 – Jaromír Fiala, Czech composer, dies at 74
1977 – Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (1960-68), dies at 61
1994 – Frederik von Pallandt, Danish-Dutch pop singer and guitarist (Nina and Frederik), murdered in the Philippines at 60
1998 – John Hawkes, American writer (2nd Skin), dies at 72
2010 – Diether de la Motte, German composer and music theorist, dies at 82
2011 – Bob Flannigan, American jazz singer (The Four Freshmen), dies at 84
2012 – Jean Craighead George, American writer (Julie of the Wolves), dies at 92