1696 – Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75
1711 – Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (battle at La Hougue), dies at 66
1964 – Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Netherlands Antilles), dies at 71
1975 – Richard Tucker [Reuben Ticker], American tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61
1981 – Matthew Beard, American actor (Our Gang shorts – “Stymie”). dies of pneumonia after a stroke and fall, at 56
1982 – Reta Shaw, American actress (Ghost and Mrs Muir, Mary Poppins, Picnic), dies of emphysema at 69
1994 – Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99
2017 – Buddy Bregman, American orchestra leader and arranger (Eddie Fisher Show; Ella Fitzgerald’s Cole Porter Songbook), dies of Alzheimer’s disease complications at 86
2020 – Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist ‘European father of the internet’ (Internet Protocol), dies at 86
2022 – Viktor Mazin, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg [5 x WR] 1980), dies at 67