1331 – Stefanus VIII Uros III Decanski, king of Serbia (1322-31), dies
1755 – Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, dies at 91
1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in WW I (b. 1892)
1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (Sally; Leave It To Jane), dies at 60
1971 – Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke and Ranee of Sarawak, dies at 86
1982 – Gösta Törner, Swedish hot jazz and session trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 70
1987 – Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
2006 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (Rebecca Nash in “Home and Away”), dies at 32
2007 – Delbert Mann, American television and film director (Marty, Separate Tables, A Gathering of Eagles), dies from pneumonia at 87
2014 – Big Bank Hank [Henry Lee Jackson] American rapper (The Sugarhill Gang – “Rapper’s Delight”), dies of cancer at 58