1679 – Werner Fabricius, German composer, dies at 45
1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1878 – Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1918 – Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1968 – Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Olympic bronze 1964), commits suicide
1971 – Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1985 – Robert Mayer, German-born businessman and philanthropist, dies at 105
1990 – Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
2008 – Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924).