1312 – Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau), dies at 77
1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (Fondamenti per la teorica delle funzioni di variabili reali), dies at 72
1940 – Andrea d’ Angeli, Italian composer, dies at 71
1959 – Egon Kornauth, Austrian classical pianist, composer, and teacher, dies at 68
1964 – Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
1998 – Ted Hughes, English Poet and translator (British Poet Laureate 1984-98), dies at 68
2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2002 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)