1925 – José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto-Rican composer (El coquí; Requiem por Angel Mislán), dies at 44
1929 – Lemon Henry “Blind Lemon” Jefferson, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 36
1941 – L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
1990 – Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (8½; La Dolce Vita; Dark Eyes; The Pizza Triangle), dies of pancreatic cancer at 72
2003 – Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
2005 – Vincent Gigante, Italian-American mafioso, dies at 77
2008 – Carol Chomsky, American linguist and education specialist (b. 1930)
2008 – Dock Ellis, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1968-79, All-Star (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, and 3 other teams), dies of liver issues at 63
2009 – Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah (b. 1922)