1525 – Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1969 – Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of a heart attack at 61
1984 – Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1991 – John Charles Daly, American, newscaster and TV game show host (What’s My Line), dies at 77
1994 – Donald Phillips, pianist and composer, dies at 80
1998 – Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist (Take my wife … please), dies at 91
2020 – Jan Kowalczyk, Polish equestrian rider (Olympics gold show jumping individual; silver team 1980), dies at 78
2020 – Ben Cooper, American western actor (The Rose Tattoo; Outcast; Arizona Raiders), dies at 86
2020 – Mario Bunge, Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist (pioneering work in epistemology), dies at 100
2024 – Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor (Star Trek: Discovery), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 49