1520 – Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies
1839 – Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
1887 – William Preston, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
1947 – Harry Carey [Henry DeWitt Carey II], American actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Red River), dies at 69
1963 – Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
1973 – Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39
1988 – Christine Norden, British actress (Little Shop of Horrors, Night Beat), dies from pneumonia at 63
1992 – Hans Rosenberg, astronomer/alderman of Utrecht, dies
1998 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (3 x Olympic gold 1988), dies of an epileptic seizure at 38
2006 – Raymond “Boz” Burrell, British rock musician (King Crimson, Bad Company), dies of a heart attack at 60