1736 – Ceslav Vanura, composer, dies at 41
1919 – Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot, dies at 75
1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
1981 – Jose Ardevol, Cuban composer, dies at 69
1984 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist (Nobel 1966 – Hertzian resonances within atoms), dies at 81
1994 – Lynn Blessing, vibes player, dies at 65
1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian communist politician, dies at 65
1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1975), dies at 91
2016 – Kitty Kallen, American singer (“Little Things Mean a Lot”), dies at 94