1697 – Constantine Huygens Jr., Dutch Poet, painter and cartoonist, dies at 69 (burial date)
1874 – Thomas Anderson, Scottish chemist (discovered pyridine), dies at 55
1884 – Auguste Vaucorbeil, French composer, dies at 62
1925 – Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65
1956 – Jacob Weinberg, Russian-born Jewish composer, dies at 77
1968 – Ernst Hess, Swiss composer, dies at 56
1982 – Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher.
1991 – Mort Shuman, American singer songwriter (Viva Las Vegas), dies of cancer at 54
1995 – Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russian Orthodox Priest, dies at 68
1995 – Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Columbian politician (helped write Colombian Constitution), assassinated at 76