1646 – William Dobson, English portrait painter, dies at about 35 (b. 1610)
1676 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1704 – John Locke, English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and “Father of Liberalism” (Two Treatises of Government), dies at 72
1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1852 – Gerhard Moritz Roentgen, Dutch industrialist (founder of Fijenoord dockyard), dies at 57
1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2007 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
2012 – Jack Dellal, British property investor/multi-millionaire, dies from natural causes at 83