1727 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 57
1948 – Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), dies at 71
1954 – Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher, dies at 84
1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (The Mickey Mouse Club; Thundering Trails; Riders of the Rio Grande), and singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 54
1996 – Hugo Buchthal, German art historian, dies at 87
2001 – Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Sometimes a Great Notion), dies of liver tumor surgery complications at 66
2004 – (Catalina) “Katy” de la Cruz, Filipina bodabil singer and actress, dies at 97
2007 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1963-75), dies at 100
2015 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, dies at 92