1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, Austrian composer (Iphigénie Tauride), dies at 73
1842 – Joseph Rastrelli, German composer, dies at 43
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905), dies at 70
1983 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (The Italian Job, Jabberwocky, Dad’s Army), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 71
1993 – Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies
1994 – James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
1995 – Billy Hughes, British educationist and Labour Party politician, dies at 81
1998 – Ludvik Danek, Czechoslovak discus thrower (b. 1937)
2004 – Ben Cami, Flemish writer and poet (Rose from Mud), dies at 84
2013 – Mike McCormack, American NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Philadelphia), dies at 83