1808 – Georg Wenzel Ritter, German bassoonist, composer and friend of Mozart, dies at 60
1824 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (algebraic logic), dies at 60
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), dies at 69
1936 – Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies at 41
1940 – Vitezslava Kapralova, Czech composer and conductor, dies from typhoid fever at 25
1975 – Don Robey, American record label executive and record producer, dies at 71
1976 – Francis E. Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed at 59
1994 – Terence de Vere White, Irish novelist (An Affair with the Moon), dies at 82
2022 – Don Neely, New Zealand cricket historian, administrator (President NZ Cricket 2006-09), dies at 86