1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1707 – Daniel Speer, German composer, dies at 71
1933 – Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general, dies at 71
1954 – Oscar Charleston, American Baseball HOF CF (NgL Triple Crown 1921 St. Louis Giants, 1924, 25 Harrisburg Giants) and manager (NgL WS 1933, 35, 36 Pittsburgh Crawfords), dies of a stroke at 57
1992 – Paul Acket, Dutch publisher (Music Express) and impresario (North Sea Jazz Festival), dies of lung cancer at 69
1995 – Dick Henry Jurgen, American swing bandleader, and songwriter (“Elmer’s Tune”), dies of cancer at 85
1997 – Andrew Keir, Scottish character actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics), dies at 71
2000 – Sidney R. Yates, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois), dies at 91
2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born English physicist (Nobel 1962-X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) proved crucial to the determination of DNA’s molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick), dies at 87
2012 – Keith H.S. Campbell, British biologist, dies at 58