1822 – Denmark Vesey, American carpenter and ex-slave who planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina, hanged with 5 others at Blake’s Landing, Charleston, South Carolina at about 55
1920 – William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer, dies at 74
1971 – Edward Ballantine, American composer and music professor, dies at 84
1972 – Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), dies at 95
1984 – Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
1987 – Michael Bennett, American theater director and choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44
1992 – Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies
2014 – Louis Zamperini, American World War II veteran whose story of capture by the Japanese inspired the movie “Unbroken”, dies at 97
2018 – Henry Butler, American jazz and blues pianist, educator, and photographer (Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers), dies of cancer at 69
2019 – Michael Colgrass, American-Canadian composer (“Déjà vu” – Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1978), dies at 81