1778 – Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
1863 – Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer, dies at 53
1929 – Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
1959 – Edgar Albert Guest, American poet and newspaperman, dies at 77
1964 – Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), dies at 73
1966 – Austin Diamond, Australian cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies at 92
1972 – Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1991 – Paul Brown, NFL hall of fame coach (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies of pneumonia at 82
2000 – Dudley Randall, African-American poet who founded the pioneering publishing house “Broadside Press”, dies at 84
2002 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)