1817 – Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French opera composer, dies at 54
1864 – David Bell Birney, American businessman, lawyer, and Major General (Union Army), dies at 39
1959 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (Olympic gold marathon 1928), dies of gun wounds at 61
1973 – Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79
1982 – Bess Truman (née Elizabeth Wallace), US First Lady (1945-52), dies of congestive heart failure at 97
1991 – Gunnar Sønstevold, Norwegian jazz pianist, and orchestral and film score composer (Litany In Atlanta; The Dorian Cage), dies at 78
1991 – Jan Christiaanse, Dutch university professor, and politician (Senate, 1973-77, 1979-91; resident of Dutch political party CDA), dies at 59
1993 – Lois Kibbee, American actress (Edge of Night), dies of a brain tumor at 71
2007 – Kumiko Ida, Japanese classical pianist, dies of meningitis at 38
2010 – Marion Brown, American jazz alto saxophonist, (Marion Brown Quartet; John Coltrane -“Ascension”; Artie Schepp), avant garde composer, writer, and ethnomusicologist, dies at 79