1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar, dies at 89
1788 – Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63
1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter, dies at 58
1956 – Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78
1965 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1973 – Anton Schnack, German writer and poet, dies at 81
1999 – Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
2006 – Philip Randle, British biochemist (Randle cycle), dies at 80
2006 – Tokyo Rose [Iva Toguri D’Aquino], American-born Japanese propagandist (WWII), dies at 90