1684 – Pierre Corneille, French poet and dramatist (El Cid, Horace), dies at 42
1704 – Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter and engraver, dies at 44
1837 – Robert Clark, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1819-21), dies at 60
1936 – Oscar Da Costa, West Indian cricket all-rounder (5 Tests), dies at 29
1961 – Donald Cook, American actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
1988 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (People’s Palace), dies at 90
1992 – Petra Kelly, German politician (co-founder of German Green Party), activist, and writer (Nonviolence Speaks to Power), killed by her lover in murder-suicide at 44 (date approximate)
2004 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker), dies at 81
2007 – Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931)
2017 – Arthur “Art” Janov, American psychologist and psychotherapist notable for creating primal therapy (The Primal Scream), dies of natural causes at 93
