1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain, dies at 84
1840 – Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer and choreographer (In L’Offrande à la Liberté), dies at 82
1871 – Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor (calculating machine) considered the “father of the computer”, dies of renal failure at 79
1938 – Karl Kautsky, Austrian philosopher and Marxist theorist (Socialist journal Neue Zeit), dies at 83
1945 – Fred Hovey, American tennis player (US Nationals 1895), dies at 77
1972 – Esma Cannon, Australian-born actress (Sailor Beware!), dies at 66
1982 – John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1983 – Vijay Manjrekar, Indian cricket batsman (55 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 189no; Bombay, Bengal, Rajasthan, Maharashtra), dies at 52
1994 – WiIlliam Faure, South African film producer (Shaka Zulu), dies of kidney failure at 45
2021 – Colin Powell, American General and 1st Black US Secretary of State (2001-05), dies from complications of COVID-19, blood cancer, and Parkinson’s disease at 84