1840 – Moses Waddel, American educator, minister and bestselling author (Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt), dies at 70
1878 – Sam Bass, American Old West train robber and outlaw, dies of wounds from a gunfight with Texas Rangers 27
1938 – Owen Wister, American author, ‘father of the Western’ (The Virginian), dies at 78
1944 – Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1975 – Fie Carelsen, Dutch stage actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85
1991 – Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
1996 – John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
2003 – Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2006 – Mako, Japanese-American actor (The Sand Pebbles), dies at 72