1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1891 – Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
1919 – Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot, dies at 75
1943 – George Washington Crile, American Surgeon (blood transfusion, surgical shock), dies at 78
1944 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, dies at 56
1960 – Luís Costa, Portuguese composer, dies at 80
1994 – Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies
1996 – Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, English Archaeologist, dies at 93
2010 – Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
2018 – Anna Mae Hays [McCabe], American military officer and US military’s 1st female General, dies from a heart attack at 97