1555 – Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader who fought for the Duke of Guelders, dies at about 76
1893 – Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), dies at 59
1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Quebec), dies at 79
1948 – Georges Hüe, French composer, dies at 90
1974 – Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, dies at 96
1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (Roots, The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning), dies at 60
1994 – Dennis Potter, British TV dramatist (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, Midnight Movie), dies of cancer at 59
2012 – Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and three time Nobel Prize nominee (hominid fossil sites), dies at 86
2023 – The Iron Sheik (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri), Iranian pro wrestler (WWF Heavyweight C’hip 1983-84; WWF Tag Team C’ship 1985 [Nikolai Volkoff], dies at 81
2024 – Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, German minimalist composer (Unisono Diviso; Im Klang), dies at 90