1676 – Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
1842 – Bedrich Divis Weber, Bohemian composer and musicologist, dies at 76
1933 – Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
1942 – Vojislav Vuckovic, composer, dies at 32
1980 – Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43
1997 – Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39
2010 – Bud Greenspan, American documentary maker (Olympic Games), dies at 84
2013 – Mike Hegan, American baseball player, dies from heart failure at 71
2018 – Nancy Roman, American, NASA’s first chief of astronomy ‘Mother of the Hubble’, dies at 93
2020 – Tony Rice, American bluegrass guitarist (J.D. Crowe and the New South), dies at 69