1922 – Benedict XV [Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa], Italian 258th pope (1914-22), dies at 67
1935 – Horace Rawlins, English golfer (US Open 1895), dies at 60
1942 – Xiao Hong, Chinese writer (The Field of Life and Death). dies at 30
1949 – Henry Slocum, American tennis player (US Nationals 1888-89), dies at 86
1952 – Roger Vitrac, French poet and dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
1974 – Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke’s Law), dies at 64
1995 – Christopher Francis Palmer, British composer, orchestrator, and musicologist, dies of AIDS complications 48
2002 – Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor, dies at 85
2005 – Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 – Rose Mary Woods, American secretary to Richard Nixon (claimed to have erased part of Watergate tapes by accident), dies at 87