1187 – Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
1811 – John Antes, American composer and missionary, dies at 71
1857 – Francis Beaufort, Irish admiral and hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale), dies at 83
1972 – Erwin Dressel, German composer, dies at 63
1978 – Don Ellis, American avant garde jazz trumpeter, and Grammy Award-winning film score composer (The French Connection), dies of a heart attack at 44
1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French-American novelist (Memoirs of Hadrian, The Abyss), dies at 84
1996 – Ruby Murray, Irish singer (“Heartbeat”; “Softly, Softly”), dies of liver cancer at 61
1996 – Elizabeth Hill, Russian-English teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
1999 – Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter known as the “the Arizona Cowboy”, and actor (Frontier Doctor – “Dr. Baxter”), dies at 78
2019 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (Olympic gold 80m hurdles 1964; bronze 100m hurdles 1972), dies at 81