1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1894 – James Anthony Froude, English historian and novelist (The Nemesis of Faith), dies at 76
1896 – Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer, dies at 51
1913 – Daniel David Palmer, Canadian founder of chiropractic (1897 Palmer School of Chiropractic), dies of typhoid fever at 68
1964 – Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84
1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29
1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1993 – Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
2007 – Max McGee, American football player (Green Bay Packers), dies at 75
2015 – Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger, dies at 89