1683 – Lord William Russell, English politician and plotter against Charles II, beheaded at 43
1889 – Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1972 – Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (1952-72), dies of a heart condition at 45
1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated by the IRA at 54
1993 – Robert Glass, American film sound engineer (ET), is murdered at 53
1995 – Elleston Trevor, English author (The Flight of the Phoenix), dies at 75
1996 – John Kevin Moorhouse, British test pilot, dies in a plane crash during an air show at 50
1996 – Macha Rosenthal, American critic and poet (Poetry as Confession), dies at 79
1999 – David Ogilvy ‘Father of Advertising’, English advertising whiz (founded Ogilvy and Mathers), dies at 88
2002 – John Cunningham, British Royal Air Force night fighter ace (WW II), dies at 84