1658 – Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
1889 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 21st district), dies at 65
1914 – Bernardus Hermanus Heldt, Dutch trade union leader and politician, dies at 72
1924 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89
1929 – Wyatt Earp, American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the OK Corral, dies at 80
1980 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (Lincoln Portrarit), dies of pneumonia at 78
1983 – D Mack Reynolds, American writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies
1992 – Yvonne Bryceland, South African stage actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66
2007 – Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (Brecker Brothers), dies at 57
2008 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)