1761 – Meinrad Spiess, German composer, dies at 77
1816 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1878 – Hendrik Jut, Dutch murderer (Head of Jut), dies at 26
1928 – Salvador Díaz Mirón, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas), dies at 74
1942 – Walter Leigh, British composer (The Frogs of Aristophanes), dies at 36
1966 – Thomas Chalmers, American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
1967 – Bombardier Billy Wells [William Thomas Wells], English heavyweight boxer (Lionsdale Belt, 1911), dies at 79
1994 – Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of O.J. Simpson at 27
1998 – Leo Buscaglia, American psychologist known as “Dr Love” (Love), dies of a heart attack at 74
2011 – Carl Gardner, American pop-rock vocalist (The Coasters – “Yakety Yak”), dies at 83