1841 – Antoine Philippe Vischer, comte de Celles, Belgian-French politician, dies at 61
1941 – Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
1942 – Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34
1956 – Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
1983 – Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
1991 – Joseph Papp, US theater producer (A Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70
1999 – Theodore Hall, American physicist and Atomic Spy for the Soviet Union, dies at 74
2006 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (The Unbelievable Truth), murdered at 40
2006 – Bettye Ackerman, American actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey), dies at 82
2011 – Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (b. 1919)