1734 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France, dies at 81
1963 – Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
1983 – Eelco van Kleffens, Dutch diplomat and politician (Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1939-46; UN Representative, 1946-56), dies at 88
1988 – Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice, dies at 82
1995 – Claire Sterling, American journalist and writer (The Terror Network), dies at 75
2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice, 1st permanent black judge on South African Supreme Court, dies at 68
2001 – Donald J. Cram, American biochemist (development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity – Nobel 1987), dies at 82
2004 – Jackie Paris, American jazz singer and guitarist (“Skylark”), dies at 79
2007 – Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
2022 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor (A Man and A Woman; Z; Amour), dies at 91