1618 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1568–1618), dies at 65
1798 – James Wilson, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, dies at 55
1839 – William Smith, British geologist who is credited with creating the first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), dies at 70
1910 – Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist and anthropologist, dies at 78
1937 – Frederick Burr Opper, American pioneering cartoonist (Happy Hooligan), dies at 80
1948 – Eleni Gatzoyiannis, Greek heroine (subject of “Eleni” by son Nicholas Gage about how she saved her children), shot and killed by communists at 41
1964 – Lumsden Hare, Irish actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess), dies at 89
1987 – John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
2018 – Tatyana Kuznetsova, Soviet cosmonaut (youngest person selected for space training at 20 but never flew), dies at 77
2023 – Len Chandler, American folk music singer-songwriter (“Beans in Ears”), and civil rights activist, dies at 88