1740 – Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
1839 – Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, British soldier and statesman (Governor-General of India, 1828-1835), dies at 64
1939 – Eugene Weldman, the last person to be publicly guillotined in France, dies at 31. When asked if he had remorse for his victims he had killed, he replied, “Remorse, what for? I didn’t even know them”
1941 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78
1956 – Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1992 – Dewey Balfa, American Cajun fiddler and singer, dies at 65
2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice, 1st permanent black judge on South African Supreme Court, dies at 68
2005 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum), dies at 42
2007 – Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)
2008 – Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)