1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 73
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1924 – Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
1945 – Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), dies at 33
1962 – Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1967 – Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
1989 – Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
1992 – Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll’s), dies of pneumonia
1998 – Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed