1775 – Charles Saunders, British admiral, First Lord of the Admiralty, dies at about 60
1862 – Sylvester Churchill, US Union brigadier general, dies
1879 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian, dies at 68
1941 – Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1956 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor, dies at 77
1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist whose carttoons inspired the Rube Goldberg contests (Pulitzer Prize 1948), dies of cancer at 87
1979 – Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran’s nephew, murdered in Paris
1988 – Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar’s Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47
1990 – Horst Bienek, German writer and director (The First Polka), dies at 60
2005 – Lucy d’Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892)