1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic, 1st president of Yale University, dies at 63
1864 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, dies at 55
1901 – James Dunwoody Bulloch, Confederacy’s chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War, dies at 77
1918 – Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (analysis of the structure and dating of the Pentateuch), dies at 73
1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1982 – Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in a race crash at 41
1993 – Robert Cowan, Scottish CEO (Highlands and Islands Enterprises), dies at 60
1996 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian communist politician, dies at 65
2002 – Jon Lee, Welsh drummer (Feeder) takes his own life at 33