1821 – Thursday October Christian, son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 40
1878 – Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
1948 – Carlos Lopez Buchardo, Argentine composer, dies at 66
1968 – Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
1982 – Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O’Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
1987 – Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
1992 – Robert Harris, American criminal and murderer, executed in a gas chamber at 39 in San Quentin State Prison, California
1996 – Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86
2000 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires), dies at 70
2007 – Parry O’Brien, American shot putter (Olympic golds 1952, 1956, silver 1960), dies at 75