1661 – Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1956 – Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1960 – Douglas Spencer, American actor (The Thing from Another World, This Island Earth, River of No Return), dies from diabetes at 50
1973 – Arnold Maria Walter, Canadian composer, dies at 71
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1983 – Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
2006 – Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2011 – Brad Felt, American jazz tuba and euphonium player, composer, and bandleader, dies of pancreatic cancer at 55
2015 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, 1st post-communist President (1990-2000), dies at 93