1072 – Sancho II, king of Castile/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
1880 – William Lassell, British astronomer who discovered satellites of Uranus and Neptune, dies at 81
1904 – Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (designed the Statue of Liberty), dies of tuberculosis at 70
1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1968 – Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (1941-45), dies at 82
1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress, businesswoman and philanthropist (co-founder and majority owner of MLB’s New York Mets), dies at 72
1992 – Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
2000 – Benjamin Orr [Orzechowski], American rock bassist and singer (The Cars – “Just What I Needed”, “Drive”) dies of pancreatic cancer at 53
2004 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
2019 – Diahann Carroll, American actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty), dies at 84