1612 – Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar and theologist, dies at 70
1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1792 – George Mason, American statesman (advocated for the Bill of Rights), dies of natural causes at 66
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue), dies in Baltimore at 40
1919 – Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia, dies at 63
1950 – Willis Carrier, American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), dies at 73
1976 – Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1997 – Friedrich Zipp, German composer, dies at 83
2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist, dies at 48
2008 – Peter Copley, British actor (Victim, Kingdom of Heaven, King and Country), dies at 93