1646 – Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer (La mort d’Abel) and virtuoso violinist, dies at 64
1847 – Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, dies at 79
1907 – Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
1942 – Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
1994 – “Iron” Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
1994 – Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1995 – Edward Sutcliffe, British judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
2006 – Hugh Thompson Jr., American Vietnam War veteran who played a major role in ending the 1968 My Lai massacre, dies of cancer at 62
2007 – Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)