1592 – Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75
1862 – Franz Joseph Fröhlich, German composer, dies at 81
1971 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
1988 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player, dies of heart failure at 40
1990 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place), dies of a brain tumor at 76
1996 – Danny White, American singer and bandleader, dies at 84
1996 – Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86
2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player and father of Tim McGraw, dies at 59
2010 – Gisela Kraft, German writer, dies at 73
2018 – John Young, American astronaut and 9th person to walk on the Moon (Gemini 3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, STS 1 and 9), dies of pneumonia complications at 87