1813 – Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general and marshal of France, dies in battle at 50
1856 – William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), dies at 56
1897 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1912 – E. B. Dwyer, Austalian-born cricketer (Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies at 36
1918 – Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WWI), dies at 34
1926 – Victor Babeş, Romanian physician and bacteriologist, dies at 72
1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel Prize 1908), dies at 66
1955 – John Hodiak, American actor (Battleground, A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat), dies from coronary thrombosis at 41
1996 – Neville Robinson, English physicist, dies at 71
2014 – Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress, dies from colon cancer at 66