1811 – Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82
1912 – Léon Dierx, French poet (Aspirations; Les Amants), dies at 74
1949 – Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
1964 – Frank D. Smith, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame administrator (Beaches/Greater Toronto Hockey League), dies at 70
1992 – Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titanic, dies at 103
1995 – Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as “The Black Sinatra” (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), dies of leukemia at 58
2003 – David Brinkley, American NBC news anchor (The Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 82
2013 – Johnny Smith, American cool jazz guitarist (“Moonlight In Vermont”; “Walk, Don’t Run”), dies from injuries sustained in a fall at 90
2017 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman and white supremacist (British Israelism), dies at 67
2024 – Éric Tappy, Swiss operatic tenor, dies at 93