1617 – Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies
1737 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor, dies at 57
1742 – Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1821 – Luis Brión, Curacaos military officer who fought in the Venezuelan War of Independence, dies at 39
1876 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1961 – Hilda Doolittle, American poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
1995 – Christopher Shaw, British composer, dies at 71
2007 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
2011 – Johnny “Country” Mathis, American country singer (b. 1933)
2014 – “Anna Davies, Italian philologist and Professor of Comparative Philology (Oxford U), dies at 77