1852 – Margaret Taylor, wife of Zachary Taylor and 1st lady of the United States (1849-50), dies at 63
1856 – William Buckland, dean (Westminster)/geologist, dies
1891 – Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricket all-rounder (Aboriginal tour of England 1868), dies at 50
1969 – Leonard Woolf, English author and husband of Virginia Woolf, dies at 88
1980 – Dorothy Stratten [Hoogstraten], Canadian playmate (August, 1979), model and actress (Galixina), murdered by estranged husband and manager Paul Snider at 20
1984 – J. B. Priestly, English novelist and scriptwriter (The Good Companions, An Inspector Calls), dies at 89
1985 – (Edith) “Gale” Sondergaard, American Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress (Anthony Adverse; The Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86
1996 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (Berlin Philharmonic, 1945-57; Munich Philharmonic, 1979-96), and educator, dies at 84
2000 – John Milford, American actor (Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Homefront), dies at 72
2002 – Dave Williams, American rock singer (Drowning Pool), dies of heart failure due to undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at 30
