1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1778 – Arvid Niclas von Höpken, Swedish nobleman, soldier, and composer (Il Re Pastore), dies at 68
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
1969 – Frank Loesser, American songwriter and composer (Guys And Dolls, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”; Most Happy Fella), dies at 59
1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban politician, 6th and 10th President of Cuba, dies at 87
1976 – Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi, dies at 62
1989 – Jeff Richards [Richard Mansfield Taylor], American actor (Don’t Go Near the Water), dies of acute respiratory failure at 64
1996 – Harold Fox, American fashion designer and musician, dies at 86
2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA’s structure, with James Watson (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), dies of colon cancer at 88
2013 – William Scranton, American Republican Party politician and diplomat, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 96