1606 – John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies at 69
1772 – Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
1795 – Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, dies at 70
1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
1842 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
1954 – Morten Korch, Danish author, dies at 78
1956 – Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69
1971 – Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79
1979 – June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)