1757 – Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent, banker and merchant, dies at 59
1773 – Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
1829 – James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute
1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician, dies at 55
1876 – Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, German naturalist and zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
1960 – Lottie Dod, British all-round athlete (5-time Wimbledon singles champion), dies at 88
1986 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player, dies at 81
1995 – Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54), dies at 94
2007 – Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2011 – Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)