1499 – John IV, Dutch army leader, Earl of Egmond, dies
1743 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1776 – Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1920 – William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1944 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (1915–17, 1925–26), dies at 93
1947 – Irving Fisher, ‘America’s greatest economist’ (Fisher’s Theory of Interest, Monetarism), dies at 80
1973 – Manfred Gurlitt, German composer, dies at 82
1993 – Mick Ronson, English rock guitarist (David Bowie’s Spiders From Mars), and producer (Mott the Hoople; Lou Reed), dies of liver cancer at 46
2007 – Milt Bocek, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), dies at 94
2021 – Billie Hayes [Brosch], American stage, film, and television actress Li’l Abner – “Mammy Yokum”; Witchiepoo), dies at 96