1834 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American chemist and industrialist (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company), dies at 63
1945 – Henry Ainley, English actor (As You Like It), dies at 66
1960 – H L Davis, American writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64
1985 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek surrealist painter and poet (Do Not Distract the Driver), dies of a heart attack at 78
1990 – Hugh McPhillips, dies at 70
1994 – John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and director of British Museum (1974-76), dies at 80
1998 – Bernard J. Dwyer, American politician (Rep-D-NJ 1981-93), dies at 77
2007 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (Wales and the British Lions), dies of a heart attack at 56
2009 – Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman and car collector (Donington Grand Prix Collection), dies at 87
2015 – Gregg Palmer [Palmer Edvind Lee], American actor (Scream, To Hell and Back), dies at 88