1868 – Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
1936 – Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, Communist International chairman (1919-26), and anti-Stalinist politician, executed on treason charges during Stalin’s ‘Great Purge’ at 52
1957 – Leo Perutz, Austrian writer and mathematician, dies at 74
1969 – Helen Blair Bartlett, American geologist credited with inventing the insulation for spark plugs, dies at 67
1995 – Doug Stegmeyer, American rock bassist (Billy Joel Band, 1976-87), dies of a self-inflicted gun wound at 43
1998 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court justice (1972-87), dies at 90
2008 – Marpessa Dawn, American-French actress (Black Orpheus), dies of a heart attack at 74
2008 – John Thoday, British geneticist, dies at 91
2016 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, dies at 86
2023 – Tony Roberts, American College Football HOF broadcaster (play-by-play announcer Notre Dame Fighting Irish football 1980-2006), dies at 94