1841 – Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
1882 – William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
1943 – Bid McPhee, American Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (Cincinnati Reds; last 2nd baseman to play without a glove), dies at 83
1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
1997 – Burton Lane, composer, dies at 84
1997 – Roger Goeb, American composer, dies at 82
2000 – Bernhard Wicki, Austrian director and actor (Morituri, Crime and Passion), dies at 80
2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league centre (24 Tests; NSW; Cronulla-Sutherland), dies after swallowing combination of prescription drugs and alcohol at 51
2007 – Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
2015 – Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass), American politician and first popularly elected African American to the US Senate (1967-79), dies at 95