17 – Ovid, Roman poet (Metamorphoses), dies at ~59
1789 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer of Schauensee, Swiss composer and organist, dies at 68
1911 – Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcho-feminist, hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji at 29
1936 – Sir Francis Newdegate, English politician (Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia), dies at 73
1950 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian Premier of New South Wales, dies at 72
1955 – Jose Antonio Remon, President of Panama (1952-55), assassinated at 46
1971 – Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), dies at 76
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (17th Governor of Washington) and chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), dies at 79
2012 – Ivan Calin, Moldavian President and Prime Minister 1980-1990, dies at 76
2019 – “Mean” Gene Okerlund, American pro wrestling interviewer, announcer and television host (WWF, WCW), dies of kidney failure at 76