1964 – James E. Chaney, American civil rights activist who helped organize the Freedom Summer campaign, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan at 21
1964 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1965 – Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen), dies at 72
1970 – Sukarno, 1st President of Indonesia (1945-67), dies from kidney failure while under house arrest at 69
1973 – Frank Leahy, American football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
1979 – Angus Maclise, American percussionist, mystic, shaman, and composer (Velvet Underground), dies of hypoglycemia and pulmonary tuberculosis at 41
1995 – Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929, dies at 98
2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress the “Cinderella” of Arab cinema, dies falling from a balcony at 58
2011 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)
2023 – Peter Allan, Australian cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Queensland), dies at 87