1598 – Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog), dies
1940 – Lluís Companys, Spanish politician, 123rd President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1933-40), shot at 58
1963 – Édith Piaf, French singer (No, I don’t regret anything), dies of liver cancer at 47
1967 – Ivan Isakov [Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan], Russian-Armenian military commander (Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II), dies at 73
1970 – Anis Fuleihan, American composer, dies at 69
1977 – MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
1990 – Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56
1998 – Richard Denning [Louis Denninger Jr.], American actor (An Affair to Remember, The Black Scorpion), dies from cardiac arrest at 84
2004 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
2015 – Dean Chance, American baseball pitcher, dies at 74