1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow
1707 – Marie d’Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher, dies at 60
1928 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928, dies at 61
1929 – Vernon Louis Parrington, American author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928), dies at 57
1939 – Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader (introduced Ella Fitzgerald), dies of Pott’s disease (tuberculosis of the spine), at 34
1946 – Ludwig Winder, Austrian-Czech writer and journalist, dies of heart disease at 57
1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (Koit (Dawn); Videvik (Twilight)), pedagogue (Tallinn Conservatory, 1940 -70), and teacher of Arvo Pärt, dies at 83
1981 – John S Knight, American journalist and publisher (Knight Newspapers), dies at 86
1996 – David Mourão-Ferreira, Portuguese poet (Cancioneiro de Natal) and film maker, dies at 69