1927 – Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies
1950 – Hattie Wyatt Caraway, American politician (1st woman elected to US Senate, Senator for Arkansas 1931-45), dies at 72
1967 – Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55
1969 – Georges Catroux, French Army general, French Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1945-48) and Grand Chancellor of the Légion d’honneur (1954-69), dies at 92
1983 – Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic, dies at 64
1992 – Albert King [Nelson], American blues guitarist and singer (BB King and Friends; Blues Alive), dies of a heart attack at 69
1996 – Margaret E Rey, author of children’s books, dies at 90
2001 – Dick Schaap, American Emmy Award-winning sportscaster, journalist, and author (Bo Knows Bo: Instant Replay), dies from complications during hip replacement surgery at 67
2005 – Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
2023 – Robert Solow, American economist who developed the Solow–Swan model of economic growth (Nobel Prize, 1987), dies at 99