1719 – Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59
1905 – Thomas John Barnardo, British social worker, dies at 60
1906 – Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls’ Day School Trust (b. 1816)
1968 – Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62
1981 – Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist, dies
1989 – Guido de Moor, actor (Flanagan, Because of the Cats), dies
1994 – Sandra Fisher, American painter, dies at 47
1995 – Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 55
1995 – Orville Redenbacher, American popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popcorn), drowns in bathtub at 88
2011 – Johnny Răducanu, Romanian jazz pianist (b. 1931)