1221 – Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1623 – William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1943 – Dudley Pound, British admiral of the fleet and 1st Sea Lord (Jutland, WW II), dies at 66
1969 – Oscar “TV Slim” Wills, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (“Flatfoot Sam”), dies in a car wreck at 53
1969 – Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet of the Beat Generation (On the Road, Mexico Blues), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 47
1996 – Eric Halsall, English TV presenter and sheepdog trial commentator (One Man and His Dog), dies at 76
1998 – Alexander Cairncross, Scottish economist (Chancellor of Glasgow University), dies at 87
1998 – Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, British business executive, dies at 96
2016 – Manfred Krug, German actor (Boxer), dies at 79
2021 – Nils Einár Grönberg, Swedish rapper (“Första klass”; “Katten i trakten”), shot to death in suspected gang-related incident at 19