1816 – Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65
1828 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (beach scenes), dies at 74
1918 – Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38
1954 – Gino Tagliapietra, Italian pianist and composer (Antologia di musica antica e moderna per pianoforte), dies at 67
1988 – Alan Napier, British actor (The Sword in the Stone, Batman), dies at 85
1992 – Thomas J. McIntyre, American senator and writer (Fear Brokers), dies at 77
1994 – Leonid Leonov, Russian writer and playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
1995 – David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73
2005 – John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)