1865 – William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1901 – Victor D’Hondt, Belgian mathematician, dies at 60
1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment), dies at 64
1958 – Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit and literary (Hadewych), dies at 79
1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (5K 1972 Olympic 4th), dies in a car accident at 24
1994 – Marcel Bich, Italian-French baron and pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1995 – Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87
2000 – Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2010 – Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917).
2012 – Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94