1864 – Griffin A Stedman, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies in battle at 26
1916 – George Butterworth, English composer, dies at 31
1940 – Frederick Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, dies at 75
1966 – Austin Diamond, Australian cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies at 92
1976 – Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
1982 – Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72
1995 – Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81
1998 – Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander, dies at 86
2002 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
2007 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France