1654 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō, 110th emperor of Japan, dies at 21
1862 – Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, American astronomer and Union Major General, dies at 53
1898 – Yakov Petrovich Polonsky Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78
1910 – Henri Dunant, Swiss humanitarian, Founder of Red Cross (Nobel 1901), dies at 82
1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1981 – Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies
1996 – Leon Lewis, US radio talk show host (WMCA, 1970-80), dies at 81
2007 – Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
2018 – Whitey Bulger [James Bulger Jr.], American mob boss, killed in prison at 89
2018 – Jin Young [Louis Cha Leung-yung], Chinese Wuxia novelist, dies at 94