1941 – La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1962 – Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), dies at 84
1971 – Alexander Tsfasman, Soviet Russian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, dies at 64
1973 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933), dies at 80
1980 – Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore, dies at 96
1984 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer (Azerbaijan Capriccio, Shur), dies at 61
1994 – Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
2005 – Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2007 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist, dies at 76
2011 – Betty Hicks, American golfer, author (US Open runner-up 1948, 54), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 90