1604 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer, dies at 71
1684 – John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
1885 – Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 – Sherlock Holmes, “dies” at Reichenbach Falls
1893 – George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
1928 – Barry Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
1980 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
2012 – MCA [Adam Yauch], Beastie Boys vocalist, dies from cancer at 47
2018 – Paul Bloodgood, American artist, dies at 58 of Alzheimer’s disease