1806 – Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer, mathematician and surveyor of Washington, D.C., dies at 74
1868 – Howell Cobb, American politician (U.S. Secretary of Treasury), dies at 53
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1941 – Helen Morgan, American stage and screen actress, and singer (Show Boat), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 41
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1902 for Zeeman effect), dies at 78
1953 – James Finlayson, Scottish-American stage, and silent and “talkie” film actor (Laurel and Hardy films), dies of a heart attack at 66
1954 – Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (84th Supreme Court justice 1941-54), dies at 62
1974 – Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman and subject of the novel “Schindler’s Ark” and the film “Schindler’s List”, dies at 66
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), dies at 92
2012 – Theo Olof, German-Dutch violinist and concert master, dies at 88