1564 – John Calvin [Jehan Cauvin], Protestant religious reformer and theologian (Calvinism), dies at 54 (b. 1509)
1708 – Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 51
1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1939 – Joseph Roth, Austrian-Jewish journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies of pneumonia at 44
1963 – Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers), dies of an intracranial hemorrhage at 43
1986 – Isma’il Raji’ al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (Breakfast Club, Die Hard), dies of lung cancer at 67
2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (Taxi – “Bobby”; Grease – “Kenickie”; Babylon 5 – “Zack”), dies of pneumonia and sepsis at 60
2011 – Gill Scott-Heron, American writer, poet and singer (“Whitey on the Moon”), dies at 62