1948 – D.W. Griffith, American film director and producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
1955 – Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State (1933-44) who established United Nations (Nobel Peace Prize 1945), dies at 83
1955 – Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
1964 – Jan de Vries, Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, dies at 74
1980 – Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1994 – Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
1997 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (Olympic gold triple jump 1932; only person to have held WRs in both long jump and triple jump), dies at 93
2002 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist, dies at 68
2012 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and 1st American woman in space, dies of pancreatic cancer at 61
2021 – John Cornell, Australian screenwriter (Paul Hogan Show; Crocodile Dundee), and director (Crocodile Dundee II),. dies from complications related to Parkinson’s disease at 80