709 – Wilfrid, English bishop and saint, dies at about 76
1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
1965 – Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
1991 – J. de Graaf, Dutch ethicist, president church and peace, dies at 79
1997 – Eugene Stoner, American firearms designer and inventor of the M16, dies of cancer at 74
2004 – Winson Hudson, American civil rights activist (rural Mississippi), dies at 87
2004 – Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (Estée Lauder cosmetics), dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 97
2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2011 – Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944)
2014 – Konstantin Orbelyan, Armenian pianist, jazz and classical composer, and orchestra leader (State Estrada (Pops) Orchestra), dies at 85