1859 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
1873 – John Robertson, American politician, dies at 87
1887 – August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies
1907 – Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler’s eldest daughter, dies at 5
1911 – George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
1932 – Sasha Chorny [Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg], Russian poet, dies at 51
1941 – Oskar Fried, German-Russian composer, dies at 69
1948 – G Bernanos, writer, dies at 60
2003 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player, dies at 24
2007 – Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (b. 1927)