1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1912 – Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor, communist and humanitarian (Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War), dies of blood poisoning from a cut on his finger from operating on a wounded soldier at 49
1942 – ‘Philadelphia’ Jack O’Brien, American boxer (World light heavyweight champion 1905), dies at 64
1962 – Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68
1966 – Quincy Porter, American composer, dies at 69
1991 – Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1995 – Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56
2000 – Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2007 – Ira Levin, American author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), dies at 78