1669 – Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter, dies at 63
1713 – Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76
1785 – David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
1821 – John Rennie, Scottish engineer, dies at 60
1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1976 – Alexander Gray, American actor (Sally, This is Music), dies at 85
1993 – Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1994 – Heinz Rohmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
2015 – Neal Walk, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Jazz, NY Knicks), dies at 67