1704 – John Quelch, English pirate, hanged for piracy in Boston at 38
1934 – Ernst Röhm, German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler’s Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts), executed at 46
1935 – Bill Brockwell, English cricketer (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies at 70
1960 – Clarence Cameron White, American concert violinist, and composer (Elegy; Ouanga!), dies from cancer at 79
1971 – Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz at 38
1983 – Bo Gentry [Robert Ackoff] American songwriter (“Mony, Mony”), and record producer (Tommy James), dies at 41
1992 – Doug Delauder, American actor, dies at 41
2001 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist (Me and My Guitar), dies at 77
2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2020 – Alfred Kotey, Ghanaian boxer (WBO Bantamweight C’ship 1994-95), dies of complications from a stroke at 52