1678 – Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer and architect dies at 69
1734 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France, dies at 81
1815 – Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
1939 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, dies at 46
1957 – Esme Percy, British actor (Murder!, Pygmalion, Old Spanish Custom), dies at 69
1957 – D Richardson, writer, dies at 84
1973 – Luis Van Rooten, Mexican-born, American actor, author and translator (One Man’s Family), dies at 66
1973 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist, dies at 86
1993 – French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88
1993 – Angus Suttie, English potter and teacher of art ceramics, dies of AIDS at 46