1639 – Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and general (b. 1604)
1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and physicist, dies at 74
1894 – Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
1950 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
1966 – German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1992 – Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88
1993 – Davis Roberts, American actor (Westworld, Star Trek, The Killers), dies of emphysema at 76
1993 – Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
1997 – Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
2008 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (Hamoun), dies at 64