1579 – Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51
1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and patriot, President of the Continental Congress, dies at 81
1889 – Loisa Puget, French composer, dies at 79
1913 – Isabel Barrows, American editor and penologist (Conference on Negro Question), dies at 68
1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1981 – Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I’m a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
1988 – Sumner White, American sailor (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 58
1995 – Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
2002 – Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, inventor of the Lisp programming language.(b. 1927)