1108 – Philip I of France, King of the Franks (1060-1108), dies at 56
1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician, dies at 73
1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1808 – Selim III, Turkish sultan (1789-1808) poet and composer, assassinated at 46
1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist film director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83
1988 – Ellin Berlin (née MacKay), American writer (Lace Curtain), and second wife of songwriter Irving Berlin, dies at 86
1994 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British biochemist who developed protein crystallography to study molecular structure, including that of vitamin B12 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964), dies of a stroke at 84
1998 – Jerome Robbins [Rabinowitz], American Tony and Academy Award-winning theater and ballet choreographer and director (West Side Story; Peter Pan), dies shortly after suffering a strokeat 79
2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2013 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian soccer striker (58 caps; El Nacional, Santos Laguna, América), dies from heart failure at 27