1878 – Sam Bass, American Old West train robber and outlaw, dies at 27
1928 – Ellen Alice Terry, British Shakespearean actress and director (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet, dies at 68
1948 – Donald Nichols Tweedy, American composer, dies at 58
1962 – G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, dies at 86
1967 – Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies
1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player, dies at 25
1996 – Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
2010 – Ralph Houk, American baseball catcher, coach, manager and executive (World Series champion 1947, 52-53, coach, 58; mgr 1961-62; NY Yankees), dies at 90
2019 – Ben Johnston [Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr], American microtonal composer (Gambit), dies at 93