1689 – Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried
1737 – Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
1877 – Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1952 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, bandleader, composer, and arranger (Benny Goodman Orchestra), dies at 55
2003 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (Bonkers!) and game show host (The Golden Shot; Celebrity Squares), dies of prostate cancer at 75
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1938)
2019 – Norma Tanega, American folk and pop singer-songwriter, guitarist (“Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog”; “You’re Dead”), percussionist, and painter, dies of colon cancer at 80
2020 – Claude Bolling, French jazz and classical cross-over pianist and composer (Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio), dies at 90