1494 – Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1578 – Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51
1805 – Francois-Thomas de Baculard d’Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1858 – George Peacock, English mathematician (algebraic theory), dies at 67
1887 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter, dies at 36
1909 – Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46
1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1994 – Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
2004 – Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player, dies at 75
2012 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (Cinderella, The Secret of NIMH), dies from natural causes at 96