1863 – Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 28
1940 – Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
1952 – Henriëtte Bosmans, Dutch cellist, pianist and composer, dies at 56
1955 – Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at 82
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American author (The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel Prize for Literature – 1954), dies from suicide at 61
1973 – Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal, dies at 81
1990 – Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade; 5 Star Jubilee), dies at 76
1995 – Gervase Jackson-Stops, British historian and architectural adviser to the National Trust (1972-95), dies of an AIDS related illness at 48
2008 – Natasha Shneider, Russian musician (Eleven), dies at 52
2015 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian polka and Oberkrain ethnic accordionist, piano player, and composer (Avsenik Brothers Ensemble), dies at 85