1814 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (Royal Institution of Great Britain), dies at 61
1856 – Peter Josef von Lindpaintner, German composer, dies at 64
1905 – Jules Oppert, French-German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army, assassinated at 62 by an ice-pick wielding Ramón Mercader
1968 – Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1978 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect, dies at 71
1995 – Ken Rickards, West Indies cricketer (104 runs at 34 66 for WI 1948-52), dies at 71
1995 – Manfred Donike, German cyclist and chemist drug test pioneer, dies at 61
2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2018 – Barbara Harris [Sandra Mankwitz], American actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot), dies at 83