1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1871 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1929 – Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1948 – Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
1962 – Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79
1996 – Greg Morris, actor (Mission Impossible), dies at 61
2003 – Jinx Falkenburg [Eugenia], American actress and well-known US cover-girl model throughout 1930s-40s, dies at 84
2003 – Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
2005 – Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
2007 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress, dies at 76