1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1801 – Johann Nepomuk Went, Bohemian composer, dies at 56
1863 – Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at 45
1868 – Lafayette Curry Baker, American investigator spy and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 41
1918 – Mehmed V, 35th Ottoman Sultan (1909-18), dies at 73
1978 – James Daly, American actor (Medical Center, Planet of the Apes), dies of heart failure at 59
1990 – Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
1991 – Jimmy [James Henry] Van Alen, American tennis official who created Simplified Scoring System for tennis, dies at 88
1994 – Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
1995 – Gil Wolman, French artist, dies at 65