1612 – Ercole Bottrigari, Italian composer, dies at 81
1770 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader and preacher, dies in Newburyport, Massachusetts, at age 55
1862 – Isaac Peace Rodman, American banker and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies of injury at about 40
1963 – Arnold Foster, English composer, dies at 66
1978 – Beryl Booker, American swing and cool jazz pianist (Dinah Washington), dies at 56
1984 – Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90)
1985 – Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American Bauhaus trained graphic artist (invented Universal typeface), photographer and designer, dies at 85
1991 – Frank Ervin, American harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66), dies at 87
2021 – John J. Rigas, American entrepreneur and founder of Adelphia Communications Corporation, dies at 96
2024 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese Basketball HOF center (8 x NBA All-Star; 4 × NBA Defensive Player of the Year; Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets), dies of brain cancer at 58