1844 – Francis Baily, English astronomer and describer of “Baily’s Beads” during solar eclipse, dies at 70
1903 – Vicente Fidel López, Argentine historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
1964 – Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43
1968 – William Talman, American actor (Crashout, The Hitch-Hiker, Perry Mason), dies of lung cancer at 53
1974 – Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1989 – Joe De Santis, American actor, dies at 80
2000 – Willie Maddren, English soccer defender (Middlesborough 293 games) and manager (Middlesborough 1984-86), dies from motor neurone disease at 49
2013 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), dies at 74
2016 – Joe Sutter, American engineer and head of the Boeing 747 program, dies at 95
2019 – Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder, powerlifter, actor and author (Mr. Olympia 1976, 81), dies at 78