1863 – David Rumph Jones, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 37
1909 – Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1949 – Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron, diplomat and senator, dies at 63
1955 – Yves Tanguy, French-American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1988 – Seán MacBride, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and founder of Amnesty International (Nobel 1974), dies at 83
1993 – Huub Jacobse [Hendrik Hubert Jacobse], Dutch politician (VVD), dies at 68
2000 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2006 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, dies at 79
2008 – Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2018 – Dolores O’Riordan, Irish musician and singer-songwriter (The Cranberries, Zombie, Linger), drowns in the bath at 46