1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
1873 – John Robertson, American politician, dies at 87
1883 – Frederick Scotson Clark, English organist and composer, dies at 42
1906 – Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (optics), committed suicide at 42
1989 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish classical and film score composer (Rapsodia portuguesa; is Don Quixote de la Mancha), and conductor, dies at 84
1990 – Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
2014 – Rosemary Murphy, American actress (Margaret-Lucas Tanner), dies from esophageal cancer at 89
2015 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2008), dies at 94
2016 – Beatrice de Cardi, British archaeologist, dies at 102
2017 – Pierre Henry, French composer (considered pioneer of musique concrète), dies at 89