1727 – Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies at 43
1851 – Adriaan van Bevervoorde, Dutch journalist (Treason), dies at 31
1919 – Guido von List, Austrian-German occultist and novelist (Jung Diethers Heimkehr), dies at 70
1926 – Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
1987 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
1992 – Warren Neal Boxer, dies of AIDS at 34
2006 – Laurence Shurtliff [Ram Rod], American music executive and roadie (the Grateful Dead), dies at 61
2013 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinean dictator, dies from complications from a fall at 87
2016 – Guy Clark, American country singer (Heartbroke), dies at 74
2019 – Herman Wouk, American novelist (The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War), dies at 103