1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer, dies at about 53
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo [Bohdan Eugène Junod], Polish film director, producer and comedic actor, dies in the Gulag at 43
1990 – Juan Jose Arevalo, President of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1996 – Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2004 – Hildy Park, American actress and writer (To Tell the Truth), dies of a stroke at 78
2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2011 – Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 – John Tchicai, Danish jazz saxophonist and composer (New York Art Quartet), dies at 76