1795 – Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
1868 – Mongkut [Rama IV], King of Thailand (1851-68), opened country to the West (model for musical “The King and I”), dies at 63
1929 – Lee Richmond, American baseball pitcher (first ever MLB perfect game, 1880), dies at 72
1943 – Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 – Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
1965 – Edward E “Doc” Smith, American sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies at 75
1972 – Louis Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (Olduvai Gorge; 1964 Richard Hooper Medal), dies at 68
1984 – Billy Goodman, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1949, 53; AL batting champion 1950; Boston Red Sox), dies of cancer at 58
2010 – Audouin Dollfus, French Astronomer (discovered Janus, a moon of Saturn), dies at 85
2018 – Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian], French-Armenian singer-songwriter (“She”; “Monsieur Carnavel”; “Tin Drum”), dies at 94