1540 – Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies
1851 – John James Audubon, American ornithologist and painter (The Birds Of America), dies at 65
1851 – Karl Moser, German composer, dies at 77
1857 – Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
1942 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1978 – Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87
1994 – Claude Akins, American character actor (B. J. and the Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Movin’ On), dies of cancer at 67
2004 – Jack Paar, American comedian and TV host of the Jack Paar Show and The Tonight Show (1957-62), dies at 85
2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)
2015 – Charles Hard Townes, American Physicist and inventor (Nobel Prize 1964 for mazer-lazer principle), dies at 99