1751 – Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
1848 – Emily Brontë, English novelist (Wuthering Heights), dies of tuberculosis at 30
1932 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
1939 – Eric Fogg, English composer, dies under a train at 36
1951 – Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
1953 – Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies
1959 – Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1966 – Ehm Welk [Thomas Trimm], German writer, dies at 82
1977 – Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician and the 1st woman to serve as a governor (Wyoming, 1925-27), dies at 101
2012 – Robert Bork, American legal scholar/jurist, dies from heart disease at 85