1864 – George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brigadier general, dies at 34
1951 – John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71
1956 – Jean Hersholt, Danish actor (Heidi, Greed, Men in White, Aryan), dies form cancer at 69
1961 – George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1986 – Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 84 (b. 1901)
1992 – Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84
1996 – Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
1997 – Doc Cheatham, jazz musician, dies of stroke at 91
2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (b. 1930)