1806 – William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, dies at 58
1852 – John Howard Payne, American actor, playwright (Fair Warning), author and creator of the hit song “Home! Sweet Home!”, dies at 60
1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53
1936 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher, dies at 80
1966 – Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1988 – Brook Benton [Benjamin Franklin Peay], American soul vocalist (It’s Just a Matter of Time, Rainy Night in Georgia), dies of meningitis at 56
1996 – Maisie Fitter, editor and conservationist, dies at 83
2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2013 – Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese French painter (Juin-Octobre 1985), dies at 93
2020 – Jocelyn Barrow, British race relations campaigner (Card) and 1st black female governor of the BBC, dies at 90