1575 – Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45
1619 – Hans Lippershey, credited inventor of the telescope, buried aged 48 or 49
1642 – RenĂ© Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
1959 – Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies
1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor and narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
1993 – Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85
1995 – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, American atheist who opposed prayer in school, murdered at 76 along with her son Jon by David Waters
2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)