1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1793 – Louis A count d’Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
1815 – Frederik Willem, Duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle at 43
1858 – John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1910 – Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 – Emmett Hardy, American jazz musician, dies at 22
1994 – Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
2014 – Tony Gwynn, American Hall of Fame baseball player, dies from salivary gland cancer at 54
2017 – John G. Avildsen, American film director (Rocky, The Karate Kid), dies of cancer at 81