1598 – Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic, 1st president of Yale University, dies at 63
1887 – Abraham van Lier, Dutch theater director (Grand Théâtre des Variétés), dies at 73
1891 – (Carl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert, German pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 79
1953 – Osa Johnson, American adventurer and filmmaker, dies at 58
1982 – Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in a race crash at 41
1994 – Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Cafe Express, Octopus), dies of heart failure at 52
1996 – Robley D. Evans, American nuclear physicist (one of the founders nuclear Medicine), dies at 88
1998 – Richard Hamming, American Mathematician and Computer Scientist (Hamming code), dies of a heat attack at 82
2001 – Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., American librarian and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, dies at 90