1881 – Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], American frontier outlaw, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett and dies of gunshot wounds at 21
1897 – John Franklin Farnsworth, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 77
1907 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1930 – William Hare Ashley, South African cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies at 68
1951 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricket batsman (12 Tests; NSW, Queensland, Auckland), dies at 89
1965 – Adlai Stevenson II, American politician (US Ambassador to UN, 1961-65; Governor of Illinois, 1949-53; Democratic presidential candidate, 1952 and 1956), dies at 65
1975 – [Arthur] Zutty Singleton, American jazz drummer (Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five), dies at 77
1980 – Felix Berezin, Russian physicist and mathematician (Berezin integral), dies at 49
2000 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 – Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger, dies at 80