1747 – Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat, Scottish Jacobite (last man beheaded in England), beheaded for treason at 80
1852 – John Howard Payne, American actor, playwright (Fair Warning), author and creator of the hit song “Home! Sweet Home!”, dies at 60
1862 – George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53
1984 – Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2005 – Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist (Pornography: Men Possessing Women), dies of heart failure at 58
2011 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe), dies of lymphoma at 86
2019 – Marilynn Smith, American golfer, co-founder LPGA (Titleholders Championship 1963-64), dies at 89
2020 – Dmitri Smirnov, Russian-British classical composer (Solo for Harp; Thel; Red Bells), and teacher, dies of COVID-19 at 71