1652 – John Dirksz Both, Dutch landscape painter and etcher, dies at about 37
1888 – Isaac Strauss, French violinist, conductor and composer, dies at 82
1888 – Charles Cros, French inventor and poet (Le Hareng Saur), dies at 45
1890 – Eduard von Bauernfeld, Austrian comedic playwright, dies at 88
1904 – Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
1924 – Jacob P. Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
1959 – Emil FrantiĊĦek Burian, Czech author and composer, dies at 55
1992 – Jan van Baal, Dutch anthropologist and governor of Dutch New Guinea, dies (b. 1909)
1996 – Ruth Holland, British journalist (BMJ), dies in the Watford rail crash at 54
2000 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician and leader of Egypt’s Wafd Party, dies at 88