1675 – John Lightfoot, English theologist and scholar (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
1745 – Christoph Förster, German composer, dies at 52
1916 – Hans Richter, Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and opera conductor who led first complete performance of Richard Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus (1876), dies at 73
1931 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1968 – Fred Clark, American actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54
1977 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
1996 – Wilf Carter, Canadian country and western singer-songwriter, yodeler, and guitarist, also known as “Montana Slim”, dies at 91
2007 – Andrew Imbrie, American contemporary classical composer, and pianist, dies at 86
2013 – Colin Wilson, English writer (Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries), dies at 82
2023 – Norman Lear, American Peabody and Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer (All in The Family; One Day at a Time; The Jeffersons; Maude), and film director (Cold Turkey), dies at 101
