1531 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1903 – Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricket batsman (23 Tests [7 captain]; 1277 runs @ 35 47; Nottinghamshire), dies at 47
1984 – Bill Holland, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1949; runner-up 1947, 48, 50), dies at 76
1988 – Virginia Farmer, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90
1998 – (Edwin) “Ted” Astley, British arranger, bandleader, and film and television composer (The Mouse That Roared; The Saint), dies at 76
2004 – Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], American actor (The Odd Couple), dies aged 84
2006 – Freddie Garrity, English pop singer (Freddie and the Dreamers – “I’m Telling You Now”), dies at 69
2007 – Bernard Blaut, Polish soccer midfielder (36 caps; KP Legia Warsaw, FC Metz) and manager (UAE), dies at 67
2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American pharmacologist (co-winner Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1998), and educator, dies at 92
2009 – Nicholas Maw, British composer, dies at 73