1017 – Genshin [Eshin Sōzu], Japanese scholar-monk of the Buddhist Tendai sect (Ōjōyōshū -“Essentials of Birth in the Pure Land”), dies at around 75
1950 – Theodore “Fats” Navarro, American jazz trumpet player, dies from poor health following long-term heroin addiction, tuberculosis, and a weight problem, at 26
1962 – George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, dies at 63
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (Hello Dolly; What A Wonderful World), dies of a heart attack at 69
1992 – Edgardo Pallero, Argentine film producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies at about 56
1993 – Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, dies at 84
2000 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist, classical and popular music composer, memoirist, and subject of the film “The Pianist”, dies at 88
2004 – Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2017 – Thomas E. Sanders, American aerial cameraman (Living Daylights), dies at 63
2019 – Cameron Boyce, American actor (Mirrors, Jessie), dies from an epileptic seizure at 20