1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1824 – John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
1963 – John Gunn, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies at 87
1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Italy, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 71
1968 – Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1970 – Timothy Mather Spelman, American composer, dies at 79
1971 – George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
1988 – Ray Eames, American designer and filmmaker, dies at 75
1991 – Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 101
2018 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (Lazytown), dies of cancer at 43