1686 – Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
1806 – John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1941 – Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1976 – H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
2002 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer and pianist, (born about 1893)
2006 – Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered), dies at 81
2007 – Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2012 – Benedict Freedman, American novelist and mathematician, dies at 92
2016 – Nabil Maleh, Syrian film director and writer, dies at 79