1766 – Adrien-Maurice de Noailles, third Duke of Noailles, soldier, and Marshal of France, dies at 87
1860 – Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (1807-13), dies at 75
1933 – Sissieretta Joyner Jones, American singer (“Black Patti”), dies at about 64
1938 – “Digger” Robertson, Australian cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, played in California), dies at 76
1945 – José Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter and author (Madrid Escenas), dies at 59
1947 – Emil Seidel, German-American politician (36th Mayor of Milwaukee), dies at 82
1995 – Inshan Ali, West Indian cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77), dies at 45
2002 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1979-84), dies at 88
2005 – Paul Winchell (Wilchinsky), American ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smiff), inventor (mechanical artificial human heart,1963), voice actor (Winnie the Pooh – “Tigger”; Dick Dastardly; The Banana Splits -“Fleegle”), and acupuncturist, dies at 82
2020 – Jane Parker-Smith. English classical organist, dies at 70