1567 – Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
1627 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
1980 – Alioune Diop, Senegalese writer and editor (Présence africaine), dies at 70
1985 – Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 75
1997 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (critical pedagogy), dies at 75
2009 – Marilyn French, American author (The Women’s Room), dies at 79
2015 – Guy Carawan, American folk singer and folklorist (We Shall Overcome), dies at 87
2017 – (Mary) Norma Procter, British contralto singer, dies of Parkinson’s Disease at 89
2018 – Kottayam Pushpanath, Indian author, dies at 80
2022 – Yuri Vasenin, Russian soccer midfielder (9 caps USSR; FC Zorya Voroshylovhrad), dies at 73