1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist who developed the atomic theory of matter and researched colour blindness, dies at 77
1968 – Anton van Duinkerken [Willem Jan Marie Anton Asselbergs], Dutch poet and academic, dies at 65
1972 – Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician, dies at 77
1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (“Sunbaker”), dies at 81
1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (member of the Bang-Bang Club), commits suicide at 33
1997 – Isabel Dean, English actress (Five Days One Summer Virgin Island, Ransom), dies at 79
2011 – Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer (The Notebook), dies at 75
2012 – Tony Martin, American singer, dies from natural causes at 98
2015 – A. P. J. [Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen] Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (2002-07), dies at 83
2018 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident (Moscow 2042), dies of a heart attack at 85