1852 – Tommaso Marchesi, Italian composer, dies at 79
1934 – Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor and early television pioneer (also invented the altimeter and automobile self-starter) dies at 66
1939 – Ford Madox Ford, American writer (The Good Soldier) and editor, dies at 65
1956 – Hiram Bingham, American Archaeologist (Incan site of Machu Picchu), dies at 80
1964 – Robert Warwick, American actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85
1976 – J. Paul Getty, American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), dies at 83
1985 – Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
1991 – Stan Getz [Stanley Gayetski], American jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey), dies of liver cancer at 64
1994 – Jan Slot, Dutch mayor (Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede), dies at 80
2016 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-born chess grandmaster, dies at 85