1630 – Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer, choirmaster, and oratorio pioneer, dies at 60
1796 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer, dies at 80
1902 – Charles Ingalls, father of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 66
2013 – John Boyd [Boyd Bradfield Upchurch], American sci-fi author (The Last Starship from Earth), dies at 93
2016 – Pierre Aubert, Swiss lawyer and politician (Member of the Swiss Federal Council, 1978-87), dies at 89
2018 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (7 Grand Slam singles titles), dies of mouth cancer at 78
2018 – Eunice Gayson, British actress and 1st Bond Girl (Sylvia Trench- “Dr. No” and “From Russia With Love”), dies at 90
2025 – P. Adams Sitney, American avant-garde film scholar (Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde), dies of cancer at 80
2025 – Nick Hedges, British photographer known for documenting the lives of poor people, dies at 81
2025 – Nina Kuscsik, American long-distance runner and officially the first woman to win the Boston Marathon, dies of respiratory failure at 86