1593 – Ĺgimachi, 106th Emperor of Japan (1557-86), dies at 75
1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and librettist (Belisario, Servant of Two Masters), dies at 85
1834 – Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer, dies from his injuries sustained by a musket ball at 29
1945 – Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed in Hoogkarspel in retribution for the unrelated killing of a Dutch Nazi guard, at 27
1958 – Frank Swift, English soccer goalkeeper and journalist (19 caps; Manchester City 376 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 44
1972 – Julian Steward, American anthropologist (cultural ecology), dies at 70
1989 – Barbara Tuchman, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Guns of August; Stilwell and the American Experience in China), dies following a stroke at 77
2010 – Ernest van der Eyken, Belgian violist, composer, and conductor .
(Youth and Music Orchestra of Antwerp, 1963-76), dies at 96
2017 – “Professor” Irwin Corey, American comedian (Car Wash: Doc), dies at 102
2022 – Vi Redd, American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist, and educator, dies at 93