1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France, dies at 65
1731 – Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 50
1896 – Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62
1951 – Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], German cartoonist and painter, dies at 38
1994 – Pieter C “Piet” Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
1994 – Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, Anglican pastor and bishop, dies at 88
1994 – Wallis Mathias, Pakistan cricket batsman (21 Tests; first non-Muslim to play for Pakistan), dies at 59
2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2015 – Dean Jones, American actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, The Love Bug), dies at 84