1221 – Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1914 – Ellen Axson Wilson, US 1st Lady (1913-14), dies during Woodrow Wilson’s 1st term of Bright’s Disease at 54
1943 – Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies
1948 – Cyril Walker, English golfer (US Open 1924), dies of pleural pneumonia at 55
1963 – Tom Keene, American actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
1996 – Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82
2002 – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American composer and violinist (Paganini), dies from heart failure at 94
2018 – Joël Robuchon, French chef, world record for Michelin stars (32), dies of cancer at 73