1714 – Edmund Andros, English governor in North America, dies at 76
1721 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1785 – Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican attorney and father of emperor Napoleon, dies at 39
1799 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and writer (types of Lichtenberg), dies at 56
1945 – Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt’s PM, assassinated in parliament
1983 – Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1993 – Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster, dies at 75
1998 – Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist (Take my wife … please), dies at 91
2014 – Harold Ramis, American actor and director, dies from vasculitis at 69
2020 – Jan Kowalczyk, Polish equestrian rider (Olympics gold show jumping individual; silver team 1980), dies at 78