1010 – Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
1614 – Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist and apostole vicar, dies at 66
1880 – Jonathan Homer Lane, American astrophysicist who mathematically analyzed the Sun as a gaseous body, dies at 60
1940 – Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84
1991 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There), dies at 57
2000 – Yoshinao Nakada, Japanese composer, dies at 76
2011 – Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1936)
2014 – Gary Becker, American economist (Nobel 1992) and recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom 2007, dies from complications following surgery at 83
2023 – Lance Blanks, American basketball guard (Detroit Pistons, Minnesota Timberwolves), executive (GM Phoenix Suns 2010-13), and broadcaster (ESPN, Longhorn Network), takes his own life at 56
2025 – Steve Pepoon, American television producer and writer (The Simpsons, The Wild Thornberrys), dies at 68