918 – Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42
1889 – [William] Wilkie Collins, English writer (The Moonstone), dies at 65
1906 – Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist and Mayor of Antwerp, dies at 53
1956 – Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75
1973 – A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at 89
1974 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies at 68
1994 – John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
1994 – Madeleine Renaud, French actress and theater director (Plaisir), dies at 94
1999 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (Man of a Thousand Faces), dies at 89
2005 – Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)