1688 – Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Neth grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54
1962 – Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63
1966 – Walt [Walter Elias] Disney, American animator and producer (co-founder of Walt Disney Co), dies of lung cancer at 65
1971 – Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1974 – Anatole Litvak, Russian-born American film director, writer and producer (Mayerling, Anastasia, The Snake Pit), dies at 72
1975 – Mukhtar Ashrafi, Soviet-Uzbek composer, dies at 63
1979 – Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
1984 – Jan Peerce, [Perelmuth], operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke
2004 – Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
2015 – Ken Pogue, Canadian actor (Adderly, Katts and Dog), dies of cancer at 81