1668 – Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1842 – Michael Umlauf, Austrian violinist, composer and conductor (premiere of Beethoven’s 9th), dies at 60
1890 – Theodore Lajarte, French writer on music and composer, dies at 63
1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 55
1964 – Edgar Barrier, American actor (Phantom of the Opera, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered), dies from a heart attack at 57
1972 – Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1974 – Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player, dies at 62
1994 – Bankole Timothy, Sierra Leonean journalist, dies at 70
1995 – Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
2015 – Nazar Singh, British great-grandfather, believed to be Europe’s oldest man, dies at 111