1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born British sculptor and woodcarver, dies at 73
1939 – Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
1973 – Ariantje “Jeanne” Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84
1986 – Rupert de Smidt, cricketer (Western Province 1911-13), dies at 102
1992 – Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
1995 – Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr’s mother, dies at 54
1996 – Guido Alberti, Italian film actor (Marco the Magnificent), dies at 87
2000 – Michael Meyer, English novelist and translator, dies at 79
2002 – Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress (‘Allo ‘Allo!), dies of lung cancer at 80
2015 – Robert Conquest, English historian and poet (The Great Terror), dies at 98