1843 – Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68
1890 – Gottfried Keller, German-Swiss novelist and poet, dies at 70
1896 – William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
1916 – Victor Horsley, English physician and neuroscientist, dies while serving in Iraq in WWI at 59
1984 – Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
1991 – Cornelis Z Forster, [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
1995 – Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies
1995 – Eleanore M “May” Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83
1995 – Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83
2003 – Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)