1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1952 – Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1955 – Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1960 – José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
1991 – Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1996 – Claude Mauriac, French writer (Le Temps immobile), dies at 81
1996 – Václav Nelhýbel, Czech-American composer (Everyman), dies at 76
2007 – Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2017 – Francine Hughes Wilson, American domestic abuse victim “The Burning Bed” who changed pubic perceptions, dies at 69
2018 – Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II), dies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 87