1681 – Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer, dies at 66
1955 – Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, Soviet operetta and film composer, dies at 55
1991 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin, dies at 97
1998 – Sal Santen, Dutch writer (You Are Jewish People), dies at 82
1998 – Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist, dies at 77
2007 – Jesse Marunde, American Strongman competitor, dies at 27
2008 – Hiram Bullock, American jazz, funk, and fusion guitarist (The World’s Most Dangerous Band), dies of cancer at 52
2014 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian operatic tenor, dies at 90
2020 – Lou Henson, American College Basketball Hall of Fame coach (all-time leader in victories University of Illinois and New Mexico State), dies of lymphoma at 88