1573 – Andre de Resende, Portuguese Dominican friar and humanist, dies at 74 or 75
1841 – Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, Swiss botanist, established a plant classification system and coined the term taxonomy , dies at 63
1866 – Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian-Czech poet and translator (Great Hung dictionary), dies at 65
1876 – American Horse, Oglala Lakota warrior chief, dies in Battle of Slim Buttes (b. c. 1830)
1891 – Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic, dies at 84
1958 – Charles Macartney, Australian cricket all-rounder (35 Tests, 2,131 runs at 41.78, 7 x 100s, 45 wickets), dies at 72
1977 – John Breeden, American actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street), dies at 73
1989 – Tim Hovey, American child actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose at 44
1999 – David Stafford-Clark, English psychiatrist, dies at 83
2014 – Antonín Tučapský, Czech composer, teacher, and choral conductor, dies at 86