1728 – Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83
1786 – Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68
1792 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer, dies at 50
1905 – Karel Komzák II, Viennese composer, dies at 54
1915 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), dies at 27
1960 – Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies
1979 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
1986 – Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck], American composer (Over the Rainbow), murdered at 81
2015 – Sawyer Sweeten, American actor (Everyone Loves Raymond), commits suicide at 19
2016 – Banharn Silpa-archa, Prime Minister of Thailand (1995-96), dies at 83