1875 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter, dies at 78
1888 – Jean-Delphin Alard, French violinist and composer, dies at 72
1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (Campos de Castilla), dies at 63
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi, dies at 74
1945 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan, dies at 83
1995 – Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies
2000 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 – Edgar Evans, Welsh tenor (Covent Garden Opera Company), dies at 94