1654 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō, 110th emperor of Japan, dies at 21
1867 – John Albion Andrew, American politician (25th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 49
1912 – James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States (1909-1912), dies at 57
1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), dies of throat cancer at 64
1957 – Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
1984 – June Duprez, actress (Calcutta, Tiger Fang), dies at 66
1996 – John Young, Scottish actor and TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 80
2004 – Margaret O’Rene “Peggy” Ryan, American dancer and actress (Hawaii Five-0), dies at 80
2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French social anthropologist and ethnologist (structuralism), dies at 100
2013 – Pete Haycock, English guitarist, dies at 62