1915 – Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06), dies at 65
1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, dies at 49
1941 – E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1964 – Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; almost 40 witnesses but no rescuers
1975 – Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1982 – Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2004 – Vilayat Khan, Indian classical sitar player and composer, dies at 75
2005 – Lyn Collins [Gloria Lavern Collins], American soul singer (Think About It), dies from cardiac arrhythmia at 56
2021 – ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, American boxer (undisputed World Middleweight champion 1980-87; second-longest unified C’ship reign in history), dies at 66