1478 – Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1915 – Joe Hill [Joel Hägglund], Swedish-American labor activist and protest songwriter (“The Preacher and the Slave”; “There Is Power in a Union”), executed at Sugar House Prison in Salt Lake City, Utah for murder at 36
1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer (The Street of Crocodiles), shot and killed by German Nazi at 50
1985 – Stepin Fetchit [Lincoln Perry], American actor (Miracle in Harlem) 1st African American film star, dies of pneumonia 83
1991 – Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (Mark of Devil), dies of bone cancer at 80
1992 – Dorothy Walker Bush, American mother of President George H. W. Bush, dies at 91
1996 – Denis Jenkinson, British motor racing journalist, dies at 74
1997 – Durlyn Eddmonds, American murderer, executed at 45
2023 – Hannes Strydom, South African rugby union lock (21 Tests; Eastern Province, Northern Transvaal, Transvaal, Super Rugby Cats), dies in a car accident at 58
2024 – Roy Christian, New Zealand rugby league centre (32 Tests; Auckland RL, Otahuhu RLFC), dies at 81