1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder, dies at 60
1881 – Billy the Kid [William H. Bonney], American frontier outlaw and gunfighter of the Wild West, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett and dies of gunshot wounds at 21
1907 – William Perkin, English chemist and inventor (discovered aniline dyes), dies at 69
1954 – Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright (Nobel Prize for Literature 1922), dies at 87
1959 – Grock [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown and circus director, dies at 79
1975 – [Arthur] Zutty Singleton, American jazz drummer (Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five), dies at 77
1982 – George Tremblay, Canadian-American composer, dies at 71
1990 – Dallas Alinder, American actor, dies at 58
1994 – Taeko Kuwata, Japanese Belgian pianist (Duo Crommelynck), commits suicide at about 47
2010 – Gene Ludwig, American jazz and RandB Hammond B-3 organist (Sonny Stitt, Arthur Prysock), dies at 72