1230 – Alfonso IX, king of Leon/Castile, dies
1930 – William A. MacCorkle, American politician, 90th Governor of West Virginia, dies at 73
1961 – Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
1967 – Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies
1990 – Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
1993 – Zita Johann, Hungarian/US actress (Mummy), dies at 89
1994 – Otto F. Walter, Swiss writer and publisher (Walter Verlag), dies of pulmonary cancer at 66
1996 – Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
1997 – Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47
2008 – Irene Dailey, American actress (Another World, Grissom Gang), dies of colon cancer at 88