1730 – Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist, dies at 74
1886 – Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
1976 – Ray “Crash” Corrigan, American actor (Crash Corrigan’s Ranch), dies at 74
1987 – Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
1995 – Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
2001 – Lou Boudreau, American Baseball HOF shortstop (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series and AL MVP 1948; AL batting champion 1944; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland, Boston RS, KC A’s, Chicago Cubs), dies at 84
2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75
2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2012 – Al Freeman Jr, American actor, dies at 78
2014 – Graham Gedye, New Zealand cricket batsman (4 Tests 1964), dies at 85