1604 – Janus Dousa [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician and poet, dies at 58
1925 – Abraham Pieter Cornelis van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (Liberal, 1918-27), dies at 89
1927 – Mary Webb, English writer (Gone to Earth), dies at 46
1941 – Gus Kahn, German-American lyricist (“It Had to Be You”; “Makin’ Whoopee”; “I’ll See You in My Dreams”), dies of a heart attack at 54
1975 – Alberto Hemsi, Turkish born composer and collector of Sephardic Jews music, dies at 78
1981 – Heinz Kohut, Austrian-American psychoanalyst who opposed Freud and created the theory of self-psychology, dies of congestive heart failure at 68
1997 – Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66
2008 – George E. Palade, Romanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974), dies at 95
2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)
2015 – Paul Prudhomme, American cajun chef (K-Paul), dies at 75