1762 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 74
1803 – Franz Xaver Sussmayr, Austrian composer and conductor, dies (b. 1766)
1939 – Ethel M. Dell, English author (Storm Drift), dies at 58
1948 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (Red Cross; UN mediator for Palestine), assassinated by a Zionist group at 53
1959 – Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director (Belgian National TV), dies at 39
1979 – Miloslav Kabeláč, Czech composer, dies at 71
1992 – Feodor Chaliapin Jr, Russian actor (The Name of the Rose; The King’s Whore), dies after a brief illness at 87
1994 – Iris Adrian, American actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard), dies at 82
2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite and sister of President John F. Kennedy, dies at 82
2009 – Leon Kirchner, American contemporary classical composer (Pulitzer Prize for Music 1967), dies of congestive heart failure at 90