1683 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61
1881 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1928 – George Washington Goethals, American army general and civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal, dies at 69
1967 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (They Drive by Night, Dodge City, Another World), dies of cancer at 51
1984 – Jackie Wilson, American soul singer-songwriter and performer (“Lonely Teardrops”; “Higher And Higher”: “I Get the Sweetest Feeling”), dies at 49
1994 – Basel al-Assad, Syrian president Hafez al-Assad’s son and chosen successor, dies in car accident at 31
2004 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (The Tied Up Balloon), dies at 74
2005 – John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2006 – Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2021 – David Bolton, English rugby league five eighth (23 caps Great Britain; Wigan, Balmain) and coach (Parramatta), dies at 83