1492 – Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1666 – Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk, dies at 66
1958 – Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect and painter, dies at 59
1967 – Nathaniel “Nat” Pendleton, American wrestler (Olympics 1920, Silver) and actor (The Thin Man, Reckless), dies from a heart attack at 72
1988 – Ken Murray, actor (Bill and Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85
1989 – Carmen Cavallaro, American actor and pianist (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe), dies from prostate cancer at 76
1991 – Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika), dies at 66
1995 – Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78
1997 – John Denver, American country music star (Country Boy), dies in a plane crash at 53
2013 – Eduard Martsevich, Soviet-Russian actor and People’s Artist of the RSFSR, dies at 76