1841 – Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1887 – Heinrich Panofka, German violist and composer, dies at 80
1950 – Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1952 – Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1966 – Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1968 – Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74
1969 – Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1969 – Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1978 – Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) and 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55