1660 – Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred) – hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1841 – David Wilkie, British painter, dies at 55
1927 – Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), dies of pneumonia at 66
1943 – Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1948 – Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, dies at 82
1976 – Pierre Balledux, Dutch stage manager and resistance fighter, dies at 89
1996 – Alan Blakley, British guitarist and record producer (The Tremeloes – “Here Comes My Baby”; “Silence Is Golden”), dies of cancer at 54
2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), dies of prostate cancer at 81
2021 – Adnan Al Sharqi, Lebanese soccer manager (Lebanon 1974–76, 1987–93, 2006–08; Ansar 11 x league titles), dies from cancer at 79