1740 – Vincenz Lubeck, German composer, dies at 85
1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) who helped shape literary modernism and existentialism, dies from a pulmonary haemorrhage at 59
1891 – Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71
1917 – Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies
1918 – Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends), dies at 30
1966 – Sophie Tucker [Kalish] “last of the red hot mammas”, Russian-born American singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
1978 – Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1996 – Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
1999 – Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
2002 – Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)