1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, dies at 82
1820 – Court Lambertus van Beyma, Frisian regent and leader of the Frisian patriots, dies at 67
1872 – Antoni Stolpe, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 21
1892 – John G. Whittier, American poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies
1971 – Spring Byington, American actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
1990 – A.J.P Taylor [Alan John Percival], English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), dies at 84
1993 – Lefty Dizz [Walter Williams], American Chicago-style blues guitarist and singer, dies of esophageal cancer at 56
1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66
2003 – Great Antonio [Antonio Barichievich], Croatian-Canadian strongman and eccentric, dies at 77
2013 – Ilja Hurnik, Czech composer, dies at 90