1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint, dies at 44
1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
1924 – George Street, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test, 1 dismissal; Surrey CCC, MCC), dies in a road accident at 34
1942 – Leonid Kulik, Russian mineralogist who led the first research expedition to study the Tunguska meteor site, the largest impact event in recorded history, dies of typhus in a Nazi prison camp at 58
1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist who discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, dies at 80
2004 – Winson Hudson, American civil rights activist (rural Mississippi), dies at 87
2004 – Estée Lauder [Josephine Esther Mentzer], American entrepreneur (Estée Lauder cosmetics), dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 97
2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
2009 – Rev. Timothy Wright, American gospel singer (Been There Done That), and pastor, dies from injuries sustained in a car crash at 61