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- 1874 – Florence Buford died, aged 80.
- 1882 – William Wertenbaker, Emeritus Librarian of the University of Virginia, died on Saturday, aged eighty-four years. He was first appointed by Thomas Jefferson when President of the University, and discharged the duties for fifty-four years.
- 1966 – Otelia Love Jackson, former teacher at the Jefferson School, died (aged 77). As president of the Charlottesville Crusade for Voters, an organization she helped organize in 1959, she was responsible for the registration of many Black voters. Otelia and her husband, Dr. J. A. Jackson, provided a recreation site for African American children at their country property in Union Ridge.