1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1917 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (Primitive Culture), dies at 84
1918 – Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42
1970 – Piotr Rytel, Polish composer, dies at 85
1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81
1997 – Randy California, [Wolfe], rock guitarist, dies at 45
1998 – Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
2005 – Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2006 – Osa Massen [Aase Madsen Iversen], Dutch actress (Jack London, Rocketship X-M), dies at 91
2007 – Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)