1638 – Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
1806 – Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1910 – William V Moody, American poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies
1966 – Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies
1974 – René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57
1994 – Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist, dies at 84
2008 – Levi Stubbs [Stubbles], American baritone singer (The Four Tops – “It’s the Same Old Song”; “Standing In The Shadows of Love”), dies at 72
2015 – Danièle Delorme [Gabrielle Girard], French actress (Pardon My Affair), dies at 89
2019 – Márta Kurtág [née Kinsker], Hungarian classical pianist, dies at 92