1771 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor and theatre director (Die Oberpfalz), dies at 61
1861 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, friend of Matthew Arnold, dies at 42
1903 – Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean and French Impressionist painter, dies at 73
1975 – R. C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey’s End), dies at 79
1982 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
1982 – Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies
1992 – Maurice Ohana, pianist/composer, dies
2004 – John Balance, English musician (Coil, Psychic TV), dies from a fall from a two-storey balcony at his home at 42
2007 – Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician and Congressman, dies at 47
2014 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager, dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 92