1674 – Lars Johnstown [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35
1860 – Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
1946 – Valery Zhelobinsky, Russian composer, dies at 33
1948 – Elaine Hammerstein, American stage and silent film actress, dies in a Tijuana car crash at 51
1967 – Jane Darwell, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), dies of heart attack at 87
1988 – Edward Bennett Williams, American lawyer, team owner (Washington Redskins, Baltimore Orioles), dies of colon cancer at 68
1990 – Jimmy Starr, American screenwriter, actor (The Corpse Came C.O.D.), and gossip columnist, dies at 86
1996 – António de Spínola, Portuguese general and conservative President of Portugal (1974), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 86
2001 – Jimmy Knapp, British trade unionist (National Union of Railwaymen), dies at 60
2014 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch flautist, recorder player, and conductor (Orchestra of the 18th Century), dies at 79