1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1793 – Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon], French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction), executed by guillotine at 39
1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian royal painter (Napoleon), dies at 63
1880 – Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
1890 – Caesar Franck, Belgian organist and composer (Symphonic Variations), dies at 67
1911 – Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
1941 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1984 – Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian composer, dies at 81
1991 – Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1998 – Rumer Godden, English author (Thursday’s Children), dies at 90