869 – Lothair II of Lotharingia (855-869) dies at about 34
1828 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist, dies at 84
1897 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79
1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (beach scenes), dies at 74
1950 – Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer (Kirov is With Us), dies at 69
1980 – Jacqueline Cochran, US pilot and 1st woman to break sound barrier, dies at 74
1982 – Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80
1988 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
1996 – George Richard Samways, children’s writer, dies at 101
2005 – Ilse Werner [Ilse Charlotte Still], Dutch-German actress (Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow), dies at 84