1747 – Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies
1878 – George Cruikshank, English caricaturist and illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
1929 – August Halm, German composer, dies at 59
1966 – Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record and dies in descent
1975 – Richard Wattis, British actor (Hobson’s Choice, Prince and Showgirl, The Man Who Knew Too Much), dies from a heart attack at 62
1976 – George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)
1986 – Dick James, Beatles’ music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58
1992 – George Berkeley, actor (Life Stinks, Capts and Kings), dies at 70
2003 – Ilan Ramon – crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1954)
2008 – Shell Kepler [Michelle Alaine Kepler], American actress (General Hospital), dies from renal failure at 49