1544 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian macaronic poet, dies at 53
1692 – William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist, dies at approximately 38
1798 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (naturalist on James Cook’s second Pacific voyage), dies at 69
1830 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (research work in malacology), dies at 73
1938 – Johannes van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics), dies at 78
1972 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist, dies at 91
1996 – Alain Poher, French politician and President of the European Parliament (1966-69), dies at 87
2010 – Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
2012 – Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (Sonata Forms), dies at 85
2015 – Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player, dies at 75