1566 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish friar and social historian, dies at 81
1642 – Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies
1884 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1898 – Emil Hartmann, organist and composer (Towards The Light), dies at 62
1952 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1966 – German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1967 – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazilian military leader and 26th President of Brazil (1964-67), dies at 66
1975 – Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74
1982 – Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language), dies at 85
2007 – Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)