1271 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France, dies at 50
1824 – Santiago Ferrer, Spanish composer, dies at 62
1864 – John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 24
1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army, assassinated at 62 by an ice-pick wielding Ramón Mercader
1994 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C’ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78
2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2015 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach (father of Chris Evert), dies at 91
2020 – Mohamed Ben Rehaiem, Tunisian soccer midfielder (35 caps; CS Sfaxien), dies at 69
2020 – Pedro Nájera, Mexican soccer midfielder (FIFA World Cup 1954, 62; Club América), dies at 91