1456 – Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and patriarch of the Tudor Dynasty, dies of bubonic plague imprisoned in Carmarthen Castle at 26
1960 – Bobby Wallace, Baseball HOF shortstop, pitcher (Temple Cup 1895 Cleveland Spiders) and manager (St. Louis Browns, Cincinnati Reds), dies at 86
1971 – Étienne Gailly, Belgian long distance runner (famous Olympic bronze finish 1948), dies at 48
1982 – E. H. Carr, English historian (History of Soviet Russia), dies at 90
1995 – Isang Yun, Korean-born German composer, dies at 78
2006 – Marie Rudisill, American author and “Fruitcake Lady” (b. 1911)
2008 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (Rotterdam Philharmonic, 1968-73; Orchestre National de l’Île, 1973-82; Tokyo Metropolitan, 1983-86), dies at 95
2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2014 – Gordon Tullock, American economist (public choice theory), dies at 92
2021 – Zuo Fang [Huang Keji], Chinese journalist and the founding editor of Southern Weekly (1983-94), dies at 86