1663 – Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint, dies at 60
1735 – Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
1934 – Marie Shotwell, American actress (Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 54
1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1945 – “Blind” Willie Johnson, American gospel blues singer and guitarist (“Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground”), dies of malarial fever, syphilis and blindness at 48
1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), dies in a plane crash over Congo at 56
1964 – Clive Bell, English art critic, dies at 83
1968 – Franchot Tone, American actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise and Consent), dies from lung cancer at 63
1995 – Donald Davie, English poet and critic, dies at 73
2002 – Andres Burnier [Catharina Irma Dessaur], Dutch criminologist and author (Jongensuur), dies at 71