1795 – Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded
1919 – Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies
1940 – Amar Singh, Indian cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies at 29
1964 – Rudy Lewis, American rocker (Drifters), dies at 27
1971 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1989 – John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
1989 – Erzsébet Galgoczi, Hungarian writer, dies at 58
1996 – Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
1999 – Robert Rhodes James, British politician historian (Gallipoli), dies at 66
2014 – Phil Sharpe, English cricketer, dies at 77