1617 – Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76
1815 – Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation proponent, dies at 77
1894 – Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician and inventor (saxophone), dies at 79
1928 – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (electromagnetic radiation, Nobel 1902), dies at 74
1946 – Margarete Boie, writer, dies
1964 – Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71
1968 – Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67
1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist ( Bose–Einstein statistics), dies at 80
1995 – Patricia Highsmith, [Mary Patricia Plangman], US/Swiss, dies at 74
1997 – James Friell, Scottish political cartoonist (Daily Worker), dies at 84