1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1797 – Josiah Spode, English potter and founder of Spode pottery works, dies at 64
1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia in 1811), dies at 62
1853 – Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
1957 – Wawrzyniec Żuławski, Polish composer, dies at 41
1966 – Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle and Blessing), dies at 75
1983 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
2000 – Maurice Evans, English soccer wing half (Reading, 407 games) and manager (Shrewsbury Town, Reading, Oxford United), dies from a heart attack at 63
2005 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2015 – Roger Smalley, British-Australian composer, dies at 72