1660 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, German princess and consort of Brandenburg as the wife of George William, dies at 62
1703 – Georg Christoph Leuttner, German composer, dies at 58
1892 – Provo Wallis, British Royal Navy officer, dies at 100
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65
1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish pastor, dies at 83
1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (All the King’s Men, Highway Patrol), dies after a series of strokes at 74
1991 – Lars Hall, Swedish pentathlete (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 63
1995 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and author (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind), dies of bone cancer at 88
2003 – Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, dies at 98
2013 – George Jones, American country singer-songwriter (“Golden Rings”; “Oh Lonesome Me”), dies from hypoxic respiratory failure at 81