1776 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
1824 – Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1953 – Edward Shanks, British poet and critic, dies at 60
1987 – Cathryn Damon, American actress (Mary-Soap, She’s Having a Baby), dies of cancer at 56
1992 – Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
2009 – Dom Deluise, American comedian, actor (b. 1933)
2013 – Morgan Morgan-Giles, British Naval officer and politician, dies at 98
2017 – William J. Baumol, American economist (Baumol’s cost disease), dies at 95
2018 – Naser Cheshm Azar, Iranian composer, dies of a heart attack at 67
2018 – Paul Bloodgood, American artist, dies at 58 of Alzheimer’s disease