1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind, dies at 74
1907 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover, dies at 88
1941 – Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1962 – Leroy Shield [Shields], American pianist, composer (Laurel and Hardy; Our Gang; Union Pacific Suite), and orchestra leader, dies of cancer at 68
1986 – Lucia Chase, American ballerina and co-founder of American Ballet Theater, dies at 88
2009 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
2010 – Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
2011 – Peter Yates, English film director (Breaking Away, Bullitt), dies at 81
2012 – Ruth Fernandez, Puerto Rican singer and politician, dies from septic shock and pneumonia at 92
2017 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist (Modernity and the Holocaust), dies at 91