1425 – Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)
1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1751 – William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies
1826 – Friedrich Fesca, German violinist and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 37
1850 – Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
1876 – Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46
1950 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, British general, dies at 67
1963 – Elmore James, American blues slide guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 45
1976 – Melle Oldeboerrigter, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 65
1994 – Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96