1706 – Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59
1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, dies at 62
1885 – Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51
1967 – Kenneth Thomson, American character actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant), dies of emphysema at 68
1977 – Margaret Hayes, American actress (Blackboard Jungle, Robert Montgomery Presents), dies from cancer and hepatitis at 60
1992 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80
1997 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1997 – Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, dies at 83
1997 – Sarah Lucas, theatre administrator, dies at 53
2012 – Dimitra Arliss [Arlys], American actress (Rich Man Poor Man II, The Sting), dies at 79