1743 – Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas), dies at 79
1875 – Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
1922 – David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
1942 – Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51
1959 – Armand Marsick, Belgian composer, dies at 81
1976 – Edvard Fliflet Braein, Norwegian composer (Ut mot havet), dies at 51
1983 – Joel H. Hildebrand, American chemist and educator (research led to new treatments for divers with the ‘bends’ through the use of helium and oxygen breathing mixtures), dies at 101
1983 – Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 70
2006 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist
2015 – Ben E. King [Benjamin Earl Nelson], American soul singer (Stand by Me), dies at 76