1798 – Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65
1820 – Élisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca and sister of Napoleon, dies at 43
1821 – Caroline of Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV (1820-21), dies at 53
1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1848 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, dies at 68
1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian (Laurel and Hardy films), dies at 65
1970 – Harold Haley, American judge, shot dead in courthouse shootout in San Rafael at 67
1978 – Franz Alphons Wolpert, German composer, dies at 60
1999 – Brian Connell, British writer and broadcaster, dies at 83
2011 – Marshall Grant, American bassist (Johnny Cash’s Tennessee Two), dies at 83