1785 – Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
1825 – Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies
1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, assassinated by conservative Russian aristocrats at 47
1933 – Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1986 – Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Soviet filmmaker (Andrei Rublev, Mirror, Stalker), dies at 54
1991 – Julia McCarthy, Scottish actress (London Belongs To Me), dies of cancer at 64
1993 – Yvonne Desportes, French composer (Seven Abstract Poems), dies at 86
1996 – Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89
1998 – Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
2017 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964), dies at 93