1609 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electress of Brandenburg, by marriage, dies at 44
1811 – Charles Ferdinand Bentinck, Dutch military officer (Governor of Suriname 1809-11), dies at 47
1909 – Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, dies at 80
1928 – Mauritz Stiller [Moshe Stiller], Swedish actor and director (The Saga of Gösta Berling, Erotikon), dies from an infective pleurisy at 45
1991 – Frances Faye, American cabernet singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after a stroke ay 79
1998 – Stuart Sutherland, British psychologist, educator (Sussex University’s Laboratory of Experimental Psychology), and writer (Breakdown), dies of a heart attack at 76
1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus), dies of cardio-vascular disease at 84
2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (Oi Kyries tis avlis), dies of lung cancer at 76
2009 – Patrick Howard-Dobson, British general (last Chief of Staff at British Far East Command in Singapore), dies at 88
2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), dies at 89