1312 – Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies
1702 – Walraad the Old, count/sovereign of Nassau-Usingen, dies
1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy, coined “black body” radiation), dies at 63
1909 – Nicola Spinelli, Italian composer, dies at 44
1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and author (Battle Hymn of the Republic), dies at 91
1974 – René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57
1981 – David Guion, American pianist, composer, and cowboy, dies at 88
1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1996 – Berthold Goldschmidt, German-British composer and conductor, dies at 93