1649 – Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
1910 – George Doherty Johnston, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
1951 – Bobby Lowe, American baseball second baseman (first player to hit 4 HRs in one MLB game, 1894), dies at 86
1982 – Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
1983 – Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (National: 1960-72), dies of a stroke at 79
1990 – Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger’s Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
1991 – (Wilbur) “Buck” Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (Count Basie; Billie Holiday; Lester Young), and bandleader, dies at 80
1996 – Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46
2014 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist, choral composer, and conductor, dies at 99
2019 – Rene Auberjonois, American actor and voice artist (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, God of War), dies of lung cancer at 79