1907 – Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, dies at 77
1933 – Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish actor (The Birth of a Nation, The Avenging Conscience), dies at 65
1984 – Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1991 – Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 – Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1994 – Jean Sablon, French pop singer-songwriter, dies at 87
2002 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer and pianist, (born about 1893)
2006 – Don Knotts, American actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3’s Company), died of lung cancer at 81
2008 – Larry Norman, American musician and pioneer of Christian rock music (“Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?”), dies at 60
2014 – Harold Ramis, American actor and director, dies from vasculitis at 69