1595 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (Gerusalemme liberata), dies at 51
1942 – Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
1969 – Margarita Xirgu, Catalan stage actress, director and political radical (Bloody Wedding, Mariana Pineda), dies at 80
1976 – Carol Reed, English film director (Agony and Ecstasy, Oliver!), dies at 69
1990 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz tenor saxophonist and actor (Round Midnight, The Other Side of Round Midnight), dies of kidney failure at 67
1991 – Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
1994 – Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Muslim leader, shot dead at 32
1995 – Art Fleming, game show host (Jeopardy), dies at 74
2002 – Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
2007 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)