1529 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author, dies at 50
1594 – Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68
1704 – Guillaume F A de l’Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62
1852 – Francis Libermann, French religious leader (Congregation of Heart), dies at 49
1969 – Boris Karloff [William H Pratt], British actor (The Mummy, Frankenstein), dies at 81
1970 – Jaroslav Vogel, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 76
1980 – William H. Stein, American biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
1983 – Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies
1989 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
2003 – Lou Harrison, American composer (La Koro Sutro), dies of a heart attack at 85