1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1914 – Alfred Lichtenstein, German writer, dies at 25
1929 – Miller Huggins, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1923, 27, 28; 6 x AL pennants NY Yankees), dies of pyaemia at 51
1933 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch theoretical physicist (phase transition, Ehrenfest theorem), dies at 53
1959 – Ennio Porrino, Italian composer, dies at 49
1971 – T. C. Jones, American female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
1983 – Leopold III, King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951), dies at 81
1987 – Mary Astor, American Academy Award-winning actress (The Great Lie; Meet Me In St Louis; The Maltese Falcon), dies of emphysema at 81
1996 – Betty Gathergood, British curator (Dr. Johnson’s House), dies at 80
2006 – Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)