855 – Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1693 – Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73
1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet and pioneering aviator (The Little Prince), dies during a reconnaissance mission at 44
1966 – Alex von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II), dies at 87
1977 – Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1985 – Eugene Carson Blake, US Secretary-General of World Council of Churches (1966-72), dies at 78
1992 – G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
2000 – Hendrik Christoffel Van de Hulst, Dutch astronomer (correctly predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyper-fine line of neutral atomic hydrogen in interstellar space), dies at 81
2012 – Gore Vidal, American author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), dies from pneumonia at 86
2013 – Michael Ansara, American actor (Broken Arrow, Centennial), dies at 91