1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, dies
1645 – Tobias Hume, Scottish composer (The First Part of Ayres), dies
1687 – George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet, dies at 59
1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
1947 – Rudolf Höss, German commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, dies at 45
1994 – Ron Vawter, American actor (Roy Cohn, The Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
2003 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (Mary Hartman, Misery), dies of multiple myeloma at 72
2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
2007 – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
2019 – Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (The Party, Sierra Sue), dies at 101