1576 – Rheticus, mathematician, dies
1649 – Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
1676 – Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer, dies at 39
1836 – Daniel Read, American composer, dies at 79
1933 – Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist (Nobel Prize 1933), dies at 79
1948 – Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1996 – Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
2007 – Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
2017 – Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist, dies at 97