749 – Saint John of Damascus, Syrian monk, priest and theologian, dies
1676 – Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer, dies at 39
1893 – Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
1953 – Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer (Chanticker), dies at 80
1979 – Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
1985 – Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1994 – Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1995 – Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham and Diane Zamora, at 16
2006 – James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
2007 – Pimp C, American Rapper (b. 1973)