1669 – Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet (Friend of Abandoned Child), dies at 31
1697 – Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island
1866 – François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1900 – William W. Averell, American Major General (Union Army), dies at 67
1900 – Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33
1924 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67
1958 – Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
2006 – Al Lewis [Alexander Meister], American actor (The Munsters, Used Cars), dies at 82
2007 – Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
2013 – Cardiss Collins, American politician (first African-American woman to represent the Midwest in Congress), dies at 81