1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
1795 – Francis Marion, American military officer (pioneered guerrilla warfare during the American Revolutionary War), died around the age of 63
1797 – Benvenuto Robbio San Raffaele, Italian composer, dies at 61
1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
1968 – Ludvik Podest, Czech composer, music journalist, and conductor dies at 46
1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
1992 – Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80
2004 – Paul Sweezy, American Marxist economist and editor (Monthly Review), dies at 93
2007 – Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2019 – Bill Playle, New Zealand cricket batsman (8 Tests), dies at 80