Events
Deaths
- 1914 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
- 1929 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
- 1947 - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
- 1955 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
- 1973 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1974 - George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b. 1904)
- 1978 - John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1978 - Gene Moore, American baseball player (b. 1909)
- 1987 - Woody Hayes, American football coach (b. 1913)
- 1995 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
- 1998 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
- 1999 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Morton Downey Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
- 2001 - Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
- 2003 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)