976 – Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1680 – Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61
1954 – Morten Korch, Danish author, dies at 78
1967 – Clement Attlee, British politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1970 – Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
1970 – Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1986 – Walter Burkemo, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1953), dies at 67
1995 – John Cairncross, British civil servant and spy (5th man – Cambridge Five), dies at 82
2002 – Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
2013 – Rod Grams, American politician and television anchor, dies from cancer at 65