1611 – Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72
1637 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
1960 – Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at 62
1974 – Alfred Ernest Whitehead, English-Canadian composer, dies at 86
1993 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist, dies at 86
1995 – Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86
1997 – Norman Carr, British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa, dies at 84
2003 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor, singer and composer (Farewell My Concubine), commits suicide at 46
2012 – Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian soccer striker (14 caps; Lazio, NY Cosmos), dies from heart attack at 65
2017 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station), dies at 83