1832 – Manuel del Popolo García, Spanish composer and tenor, dies at 57
1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
1950 – Stanislas Bizot, French draughts champion (1925), dies at 70
1986 – Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 84 (b. 1901)
1987 – Sammy Kaye, American orchestra leader (Swing and Sway With Sammy Kaye)), dies of cancer at 77
1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968), dies at 62
1995 – Harper MacKay, American orchestra leader (NBC Follies), dies at 73
1996 – Pilar Lorengar [Lorenza Pilar García], Aragones soprano, dies of cancer at 68
2003 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
2018 – Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate for research on the “enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)” (1997), dies at 99