1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (Hymns and Sacred Songs), dies
1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (The Beggar’s Opera), dies at 47
1902 – Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones and 1st editor of Wall St Journal), dies at 51
1948 – Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1980 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal, dies at 46
1997 – David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
2005 – Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
2012 – Jonathan Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen), dies at 73
2013 – McDonald Bailey, British-Trinidadian 100m runner (Olympic bronze 1952), dies at 92
2017 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni politician and 1st President of Yemen (1990-2012), is killed during the Battle of Sana’a at 75