1865 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian-British shipping magnate and founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line), dies at 77
1933 – Robin Irvine, British actor (Easy Virtue, When Boys Leave Home), dies of pleurisy at 31
1945 – Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), shot by communist partisans at 61
1970 – Ed Begley, American actor (12 Angry Men, The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 69
1975 – Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48
1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, 1st President of Afghanistan (1973-78) and Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1953-63), dies at 68
1992 – Francis Bacon, Irish-British abstract painter (Study for a Pope), dies at 82
1999 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
2007 – Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (Tonight Show), dies at 78
2011 – William Campbell, American actor (Jerry-Cannonball, Luke-Dynasty), dies at 87