1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish-Irish poet infamous as an extremely bad poet and considered the worst in British history (The Tay Bridge Disaster, The Famous Tay Whale), dies at 77
1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men’s national team), dies at 86
1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 50
1984 – Marnix Gijsen [Jan-Al Goris], Belgian writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
1991 – Zapata Jaw [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician, dies
1991 – Sam Ntuli, South African community pleader and negotiator, murdered
2002 – Edmund Trebus, British hoader, (A Life of Grime), dies at 83
2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast), dies of an overdose at 44
2018 – Otis Rush, American blues musician (Right Place, Wrong Time), dies from complications from an earlier stroke at 83
2020 – Mac Davis, American country music singer-songwriter (“Baby, Don’t Get Hooked On Me”; “In The Ghetto”; “I Believe In Music”) and actor (North Dallas Forty) dies following heart surgery at 78