1632 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1729 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch navigator and explorer (1st European to discover Easter Island), dies at 69
1933 – John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932), dies at 65
1954 – Florence Bates, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama), dies at 65
1975 – Štefan Németh-Šamorínsky, Slovak organist, choirmaster, composer and pedagogue (Birch Trees), dies at 78
1976 – Buster Brown, American blues singer and harmonica player (Fannie Mae), dies at 64
1995 – George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist, dies at 90
2000 – Anne Cox Chambers, American media owner (Cox Enterprises) and US ambassador to Belgium (1977-81), dies at 100
2014 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director (The Red and the White), dies at 92
2017 – Deke [Roger] Leonard, Welsh rock musician (Man), dies at 72