1690 – John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
1810 – Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer, dies at 82
1981 – Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1990 – Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
1992 – Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
1996 – Alfred “Lash” LaRue, American actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp), dies of emphysema at 78
1996 – Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60
2000 – Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
2013 – Trevor Bolder, British rock musician and record producer (Uriah Heep, The Spiders from Mars), dies from cancer at 62