1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1645 – Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64
1645 – John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (Virgidemiarum: Six Books), dies at 82
1706 – Romanus Weichlein, Austrian composer, dies at 53
1814 – Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies, dies at 62
1893 – Luke Short, American Old West gunslinger and saloon owner, dies of dropsy at 39
1956 – Vital Celen, Flemish writer (‘t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating (Nobel 1960), dies of pneumonia at 71
2007 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)