1608 – Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22
1808 – Mustafa IV, 29th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1807-08), dies at 29
1858 – Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1862 – Alexey Verstovsky, Russian composer, dies at 63
1931 – Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature, dies at 77
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
2002 – Leo P. Kelley, American sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space), dies at 74
2003 – Arthur Conley, American singer (“Sweet Soul Music”), dies of intestinal cancer at 57
2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (Janosik), dies at 63
2021 – Keith Alison, American session and touring guitarist (Paul Revere and The Raiders, 1968-75), and songwriter, dies at 79