855 – Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
1758 – Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco worker, buried at 78
1868 – Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81
1887 – Wilhelm Troszel, Polish operatic bass, composer, and voice teacher, dies at 63
1942 – Charlie Christian, American jazz and swing guitarist (Benny Goodman Sextet), dies of tuberculosis at 25
1950 – Rosli Dhobi, pro-Indonesian Malay student, hanged in Kuching for the assassination of Duncan Stewart, British Governor of Sarawak
1981 – Tony Gulotta, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1927 3rd), dies at 78
1995 – Hugo Cole, British composer and critic, dies at 77
2007 – Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
2015 – Bettina Graziani [Simone Bodin] French model, one of the first supermodels, Givenchy muse, dies at 89