1794 – Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
1912 – Tom Richardson, England cricket fast bowler (88 Test wickets), dies of a heart attack at 41
1917 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor and theatre manager (King John, Trilby), dies at 64
1936 – Harry Northrup [Henri N.], French-born American poet and actor (The Heart of Maryland, The Unchastened Woman), dies at 60
1991 – Lee Remick, American actress (Days of Wine and Roses), dies of cancer at 55
1995 – George Seldes, American investigative journalist, dies at 104
1997 – Jimmy Stewart, American actor (The Philadelphia Story and It’s a Wonderful Life), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 89
2005 – Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (North by Northwest), dies at 89
2013 – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American scientist and NASA astronaut, dies at 80
2019 – Michael Colgrass, American-Canadian composer who won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Music for the piece “Déjà vu”, dies at 81