1735 – John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies
1929 – Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), dies at 65
1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
1956 – Gunther Ramin, German organist and composer, dies at 57
1969 – Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (Sen-R) and ambassador (West Germany, Vietnam and UN), dies at 82
1985 – David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies
1986 – Jacques “Jake the Snake” Plante, Canadian Ice Hockey goalie who was the first to wear a goaltender mask, dies of stomach cancer at 57
1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
1996 – Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60