1881 – Sophia Perovskaya, Soviet icon, aristocrat, and socialist revolutionary (Narodnaya Volya), who helped orchestrate the successful assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, executed by hanging at 27
1937 – Ned Hanlon, American Baseball HOF center fielder (NL pennant 1887 Detroit Wolverines) and manager (5 × NL pennant Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Superbas), dies at 79
1983 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author (The Hiding Place) and Holocaust survivor, dies at 91
1993 – Harry Alexander, Australian cricket fast bowler (1 Test, Bodyline series 1933, 1 wicket; Victoria), dies at 87
2005 – Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman (18 Tests, 5 x 50, HS 92; NE Transvaal, Transvaal, Orange Free State), dies at 79
2013 – Jo Roland [Rolando Bonardelli], Swiss pop singer and TV personality (Rendez-vous), known as the ‘Swiss Perry Como’, dies at 80
2015 – Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor (Anne of Green Gables), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 48
2017 – Sylvia Moy, American songwriter (“My Cherie Amour”; “This Old Heart Of Mine”; “It Takes Two”), dies of pneumonia at 79
2017 – Clifton James, American actor (Live and Let Die, Silver Streak), dies at 96
2019 – Owen Kay Garriott, American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut (Skylab 3, STS 9), dies at 88