1694 – Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet and literary figure, dies at 56
1732 – Louis Marchand, French Baroque organist and composer, dies at 63
1854 – Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, French Catholic priest and writer (L’avenir), dies at 71
1874 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician and sociologist (body mass index scale), dies at 77
1924 – Oskar Merikanto [Ala-Kanto], Finnish pianist, organist, and composer, dies at 55
1934 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player, chess writer, and chess teacher, dies at 71
1966 – Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85
1970 – Shmuel Agnon, Israeli writer (Day Before Yesterday, Nobel Prize for Literature 1966), dies at 81
1971 – Teddy Hart, American actor (After the Thin Man, 3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73
2001 – Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)