1788 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher, dies at 86
1832 – Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
1899 – James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
1943 – Hobart Bosworth, American actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76
1946 – Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65
1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (Contribution to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay), dies at 86
1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer, dies at 90
2002 – Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
2010 – Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)