1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (Comédie-Française) inspiration for 1849 drama “Adrienne Lecouvreur”, dies at 37
1780 – Sir Benjamin Truman – English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), dies at 63
1897 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet, dies at 76
1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (Passion of Jeanne d’Arc), dies at 79
1984 – Stan Coveleski, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1920; AL ERA leader 1923, 25; AL strikeout leader 1920; Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), dies at 94
1999 – Patrick Heron, British abstract painter, dies at 79
2012 – Jim Stynes, Irish Australian rules footballer, dies from cancer at 45
2018 – Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1972), dies of a heart attack at 75
2020 – Kenny Rogers, American pop and country singer-songwriter (“The Gambler”; “Through the Years”) and entrepreneur (Kenny Rogers Roasters), dies of natural causes at 81