1779 – Jan Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59
1844 – Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85
1942 – Martha McChesney Berry, American educator who founded Berry School for Children, dies at 75
1950 – Ivan Goll, French-German writer (the Landless John), dies at 58
1968 – Johannes Tralow, German writer (Ottoman tetralogy), dies at 85
1985 – David Huffman, American actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), murdered at 39
1996 – Francois Chaumette, French actor (Le Bossu, They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72
1996 – Sylvia Williams, American museum director and curator (National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution), dies from the effects of a brain aneurysm at 60
2007 – Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2015 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (Star Trek – “Spock”‘; Mission Impossible, 1969-71), and director (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Three Men and a Baby), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 83