1743 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss nobleman and explorer who founded New Bern, British Province of Carolina (1710), dies at 82
1858 – Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Austrian explorer and travel writer who made two round the world trips, dies at 61
1897 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, granddaughter of George III, grandmother of Edward VIII and George VI and great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, dies at 63
1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German anti-Nazi activist and pamphleteer, executed for treason at 17
1975 – Rex Stout, American detective writer (Nero Wolfe), dies at 88
1977 – Peg Leg Sam [Arthur Jackson], American country blues harmonica player, singer and comedian, dies at 65
1988 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On films), dies near London at 73
1992 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
2002 – Charles O. Whitley, American politician (Rep-D-NC, 1977-87), dies at 75
2013 – Lou Reed, American rock singer-songwriter (Velvet Underground – “Sweet Jane”; solo -“Take A Walk On The Wild Side”), dies from liver disease at 71
