1710 – Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of King Louis XIV, dies at 65
1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1852 – Tommaso Marchesi, Italian composer, dies at 79
1861 – Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1862 – Turner Ashby, American cavalry commander, killed in the Battle of Good’s Farm near Harrisonburg, Virginia, dies at 33
1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (founder of Australian Tonalism), dies at 79
1994 – Peter Graves, British actor (Paradise Lagoon, Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
2003 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2006 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz pianist, dies from injuries sustained in a fall at 54
2024 – Joseph Hardy, American Tony Award-winning stage and screen director (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown), and producer, dies at 95