1862 – Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1926 – John Hunn, American businessman and 51st Governor of Delaware, dies at 77
1941 – “Kansas City” Frank [Melrose], American jazz and blues pianist, killed in a bar fight in Hammond, Indiana at 33
1991 – Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1995 – Ernest Marke, Sierra Leonean seaman and club owner, dies at 93
1998 – Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (The Mail on Sunday), dies of a heart attack at 73
2003 – Terry Frost, British artist, dies at 87
2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2014 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and inventor of Spandex, dies at 93
2021 – Marty Fried, American rock drummer (The Cyrkle – “Red Rubber Ball”), and attorney, dies of pancreatic cancer at 77