1501 – Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72
1848 – Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
1873 – Adolphe Fétis, Belgian-French pianist and composer, dies at 52
1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), dies at 63
1953 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
1987 – Rita Streich, Russian-German soprano, dies at 66
1993 – Polykarp Kusch, American nuclear physicist (1955 Nobel Prize for Physics – for determining the magnetic moment of the electron), dies at 82
1997 – V. S. Pritchett, British literary critic and writer (Myth Makers), dies at 96
2016 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (1972-3, 75-82), dies at 93
2018 – Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1972), dies of a heart attack at 75