1638 – Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1864 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician (10th Mayor of Chicago (1846-47), dies at 54
1933 – James E. Talmage, English religious leader (LDS Church apostle), dies at 70
1948 – Francesco Spetrino, Italian conductor and composer, dies at 91
1962 – Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
1991 – Pierre Brunet, French figure skater pair (Olympic gold 1928, 32), dies at 89
1996 – Jane Beverly Drew, English modernist architect, dies at 85
2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2012 – Norman Alden, American character actor (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), dies from natural causes at 87