1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar, dies at 70
1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame), dies at 59
1811 – Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49
1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), dies at 67
1944 – Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1948 – Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1957 – John Vernou “Black Jack” Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
1979 – Renato Fasano, Italian composer, dies at 76
1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)