1022 – Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1876 – Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1962 – Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75
1968 – John Steinbeck, American author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel Prize 1940, 1962), dies at 66
1991 – Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
1996 – Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies
1998 – Chester P. Lyons, Canadian naturalist and author (b. 1915)
2001 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and 1st President of Senegal (1960-80), dies at 95
2015 – Patricia Elliott, American actress (Renee-Empire, One Life to Live), dies at 77
2017 – Bernard Francis Law, disgraced American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1982-2002), dies at 86