1233 – Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1929 – Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics, dies at 83
1931 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1971 – Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1984 – Guillermo Díaz-Plaja, Spanish literary and poet (Lorca), dies at 75
1990 – Nick Pippins, American actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
1995 – Rick Ferrell, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (8 x MLB All Star; Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators), dies of arrhythmia at 89
1997 – Isabel Dean, English actress (Five Days One Summer Virgin Island, Ransom), dies at 79
2017 – Sam Shepard Ill, American actor and playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart), dies at 73