1586 – Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
1956 – Karel Rudolph Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88
1957 – Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
1968 – Albert Van Dekker, American actor (Dr Cyclops, Beau Gesture), dies of accidental suffocation at 62
1971 – Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia
1991 – William De Acutis, American actor (9½ Weeks, Other People’s Money), dies from a brain lymphoma at 33
1995 – Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89
1998 – Syd Lawrence, British bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orchestra), dies at 74
2011 – Dana Wynter, German-English actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), dies at 79
2018 – Aaron D. Panken, American rabbi, dies in a plane crash at 53