1805 – Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1905 – Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1955 – Roy Minnett, Australian cricketer (all-rounder prior to WWI), dies
1981 – Šrom, Karel, Czech composer, musicologist, and critic, dies at 77
1992 – Jim Garrison, Louisiana District Attorney who investigated JFK assassination, dies at 70
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
1995 – Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
1996 – Robert O’Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
1996 – Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
2013 – Major R Owens, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1983-2007), dies at 77