1806 – Giuseppe Colla, Italian composer, dies at 74
1819 – Nicolas Séjan, French organist and composer, dies at 73
1909 – George Thorndike Angell, American lawyer and advocate for the humane treatment of animals (ASPCA), dies at 85
1937 – Austen Chamberlain, British statesman, (Foreign Secretary 1924-29, Nobel Peace Prize 1925 for anti-war Locano Pact), dies at 73
1993 – Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
1993 – Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87
1994 – (Charles) Russell Woolen, American classical keyboardist and composer (In Martyrum Memoriam), dies at 71
1998 – Esther Bubley, American photographer, dies at 77
2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (leader of South African Labour Party; House of Representatives, 1984-92), Congregationalist minister, and teacher, dies of a heart attack at 77
2008 – G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)