1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1819 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German organist, composer and musicologist, dies at 72
1889 – Eugenio Terziani, Italian composer, dies at 64
1971 – Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz at 38
1994 – Nicholas Warner, English test Pilot for Airbus, dies in Airbus Industrie A330-321 test flight crash at 51
1995 – Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
2001 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist (Me and My Guitar), dies at 77
2005 – Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady’s Not for Burning), dies at 97
2014 – Paul Mazursky, American film director and screenwriter, dies from pulmonary cardiac arrest at 84