1880 – Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
1910 – William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
1914 – Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
1929 – Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 – Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor, author, journalist, comedian and broadcaster (Death on the Nile: Logan’s Run: Billy Budd), dies of heart failure at 82
2014 – Jeremiah Denton, American politician (Senator-R-Alabama, 1981-86), dies at 89