1160 – Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies
1410 – Rupert, King of Germany (1400-10), dies at 58
1832 – Bonafacio Asioli, composer, dies at 62
1911 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (Children’s Death Songs), dies of heart disease at 50
1972 – Daniel Ray “Danny” Whitten, American musician and songwriter (Crazy Horse, Rod Stewart- “I Don’t Want To Talk About It”), dies of a methaqualone overdose at 29
1981 – William Saroyan, American novelist and stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72
1992 – Skip Stephenson, American comedian (Real People), dies of heart attack at 52
1999 – Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
2004 – Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (1991), dies at 74