1911 – Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1938 – Edward Murray East, American botanist and geneticist who developed hybrid corn, dies at 59
1948 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1953 – Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), dies of a heart attack at 78
1974 – Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austrian-English composer, teacher and musicologist, dies at 89
1978 – Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1993 – Stanley Myers, English movie composer (The Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 – Ralph Michael, British actor (Quest, Doctor in the House), dies at 87
2012 – Bill Tarmey, English actor (Coronation Street), dies at 71
2018 – Paula Wayne [Watkins], American stage and Emmy Award-winning actress (Golden Boy; Everglade!), pop vocalist (“Everything’s Great”), and civil rights activist, dies of cancer at 84