1637 – Laurens Reael, Dutch vice-governor of Ambon, poet, and admiral, dies at 54
1687 – Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller’s plot), dies
1773 – Johann Conrad Schlaun, German baroque architect, dies at 78
1873 – Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1886 – Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies at 51
1896 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1924 – Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, Belgian composer, dies at 76
1929 – Owen Dunell, South African cricket batsman (South Africa’s 1st Test captain; 2 Tests), dies at 73
1937 – Lucy Diggs Slowe, American educator (Dean of Women, Howard University, 1922-37), tennis champion (American Tennis Association, 1917), and sorority co-founder (Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1908), dies at 52
1944 – Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)