1828 – Brizio Petrucci, Italian composer, dies at 91
1858 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor, dies at 63
1943 – Cecil Parkin, English cricket spin bowler (10 Tests, 32 wickets, BB 5/38; Durham CCC) and author (Cricket Reminiscences: Humorous and Otherwise), dies at 57
1961 – Tommy Scott, West Indian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 22 wickets; Jamaica), dies at 68
1981 – Philip Toynbee, British journalist and writer (Savage Days, Barricade), dies at 64
2007 – Richard Bell, Canadian musician (Full Tilt Boogie Band), dies of multiple myeloma at 61
2010 – Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslavian actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro), dies of suspected suicide at 74
2014 – Casey Kasem, American radio personality (creator of American Top 40) and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, dies from Lewy body dementia at 82
2014 – Jacques Bergerac, French actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun) and business executive (Revlon), dies at 87
2017 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor named a People’s Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), dies at 88