1775 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral, dies at 61
1842 – William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies
1967 – Albertina Rasch, Austrian-born American ballerina and choreographer, dies at 76
1981 – Harry Golden, Jewish-American journalist and writer (Only in America), dies at 79
1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms, Ice Station Zebra), dies of AIDS-related complications at 59
1991 – Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
2005 – Hamilton Camp, English-American actor (Andrew-He and She, Meatballs 2), dies at 70
2007 – Lady Katherine Brandram, Princess of Greece, the last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at 94
2016 – Thomas Round, British tenor (Gilbert and Sullivan For All), dies at 100