1869 – Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55
1972 – Ernst Kreuder, German writer (The Attic Pretenders), dies at 69
1973 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social social activist and reformer, dies at 94
1984 – Ian Hendry, British actor (The Avengers, The Lotus Eaters), dies of a stomach haemorrhage at 53
1997 – Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69
2009 – Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (b. 1916)
2010 – Elisabeth Beresford, British author and creator of The Wombles (b. 1926)
2012 – Ray Collins, American rock vocalist (Mothers of Invention), dies at 76
2012 – Charles Durning, American actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), dies from natural causes at 89
2017 – Heather Menzies-Urich, Canadian actress (The Sound of Music, Piranha), dies of cancer at 68