1884 – Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt, dies of Bright’s disease at 22
1929 – Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
1948 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
1958 – Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
1969 – Vito Genovese, US mafia chief, dies at 71
1990 – Tony Holiday, German singer
1994 – Gary “BB” Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
1995 – Michael Vincent Gazzo, US actor/playwright (The Godfather Part II), dies at 71
2003 – Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell dies young form a progressive lung disease aged 6
2005 – Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)