1440 – St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman, dies at 42
1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist (Canon in D), dies at 52
1800 – Dominique Della-Maria, French composer, dies at 30
1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), dies at 81
1870 – Theodore Labarre, French composer and harpist, dies at 65
1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr, American pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971 for discovering mechanisms of the action of hormones), dies at 58
1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (I’ve Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
2004 – Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
2015 – James Molyneaux [Baron Molyneaux of Killead], MP (Ulster unionist), dies at 94
