1741 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), dies at 29
1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian, dies at 81
1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1908 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (created Uncle Remus stories), dies at 59
1920 – William Crawford Gorgas, American physician and 22nd Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army (controlled yellow fever during building of the Panama Canal), dies at 65
1990 – Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
1993 – “Curly” Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), dies of pneumonia at 83
1995 – Pancho González, American tennis player (US National C’ships singles 1948-49; Wimbledon and French Open Doubles, 1949; 13 x Pro Grand Slam titles), dies of stomach cancer at 67
2003 – Charles Henderson Tidbury, British brewing executive (Whitbread and Co), dies at 77
2006 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford), dies at 65