1797 – Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
1910 – Robert Koch, German pioneering bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), dies at 66
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, dies of an assumed heart attack at 74
1983 – (Arnoldus) Arnold van Wyk, South African concert pianist and composer (Nagmusiek – Night Music), dies at 67
1985 – Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80
1986 – Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82
1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (International Bruckner Society; Mozart’s Requiem), and educator (Vienna University, 1932-73), dies at 86
2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (Breakfast Club, Die Hard), dies of lung cancer at 67
2007 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress, dancer (Silk Stockings), and animal rights activist, dies at 75
2021 – William Jay Sydeman, American avant-garde composer, dies at 93