1543 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general, dies at about 52 (b. 1491, exact sate uncertain)
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German poet, dies at 75
1975 – Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (group theory), dies at 73
1981 – Obdulio Morales, Cuban pianist, conductor, composer, ethno-musicologist, and Afro-Cuban bandleader, dies at 70
1991 – Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Tomorrow It Will Be Better, Klatergoud, Surprise Raid), dies at 86
2011 – Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter and arranger of Jewish religious music (“Mi Shebeirach”), dies of pneumonia at 59
2013 – James M. Buchanan, American economist (Nobel Memorial 1986), dies at 93
2020 – Bobby Comstock, American pop-rock singer (The Counts – “Let’s Stomp”), dies at 78
2021 – Vivalyn Latty-Scott, West Indian women’s cricket all-rounder (10 Tests, 25 wickets; Jamaica), dies at 82