1300 – Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)
1934 – Sergey Lebedev, Russian chemist, inventor of first commercially viable, mass-produced polybutadiene synthetic rubber for tires, and synthetic motor oil for aircraft engines, dies at 59
1957 – Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, Polish composer and cultural attache, dies at 53
1960 – Caryl Chessman, American kidnapper and rapist, executed in gas chamber at San Quentin (California) State Prison after 12 years of appeals at 38
1982 – Hugh Marlowe [Hipple], American actor (All About Eve, Ellery Queen), dies from a heart attack at 71
1994 – Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
1995 – Michael Hordern, British actor (Watership Down, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold), dies from kidney disease at 83
1996 – Emile Habibi, Palestinian Israeli writer (The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist), dies at 73
2001 – Ted Rogers, British comedian and game show host (3-2-1), dies after emergency open-heart surgery at 65
2018 – Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress, dies at 93
