1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman, dies at 81
1808 – Richard Porson, English classical scholar (Porson’s Law), dies at about 48
1900 – John M. Palmer, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois) and American Civil War General (Union), dies at 83
1926 – Herbert Booth, English Salvation Army Officer and son of William and Catherine Booth, dies at 64
1933 – Ring Lardner, American sports writer (Chicago Examiner, Chicago Tribune; “Pullman Pastimes”-The Sporting News; “You Know Me”; the Boston American), dies from a heart attack at 48
1944 – Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43
1960 – Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), dies at 86
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (US Masters 1969), dies of Burkitt’s lymphoma at 65
2016 – Rod Temperton, British pop musician and songwriter (“Boogie Nights”; “Thriller”; “Give Me the Night”; “Yah Mo B There”), dies of cancer at 66