1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1953 – Julius Rosenberg, 1st American civilian executed for espionage after he and his wife were convicted of passing secret radar, jet and nuclear information to the Soviet Union, executed at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, NY at 35
1962 – Will Wright, American actor (Adam’s Rib, Living Christ Story), dies of cancer at 68
1965 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist and physiologist (insulin), dies at 72
1993 – William Golding, English author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize for Literature 1983), dies at 81
1996 – Henry Ralph Carr, English WWII soldier (A Sapper’s War), dies at 82
2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2012 – Gerhard Kallmann, German-American academic and architect best known for helping design Boston City Hall, dies at 97
2013 – (Ottis) “Slim” Whitman, American country singer (“Rose Marie”; “Guess Who”), dies from heart failure at 90
2016 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (Star Trek), dies in an accident at 27