1530 – Francois Lambert d’avignon, French church reformer, dies at ~43
1800 – Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies at 71
1888 – Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), dies at 58
1925 – Charles Ebbets, American sports executive (co-owner of Brooklyn Dodgers 1897-1902), dies at 65
1928 – Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor, dies of a heart attack at 58
1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer, dies at 50
1940 – Florrie Forde [Flannagan], Australian singer and British music hall performer, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
1949 – Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist, dies at 62
1964 – Ben Hecht, American playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1988 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist, dies at 48