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- 1905 – J. Samuel McCue, a former mayor of Charlottesville convicted of murdering his wife Fannie Crawford McCue, was publicly executed by hanging at the County Jail.
- 1937 – Shelton Fife died of injuries sustained in a car accident in Richmond while on a business trip. He was interned at the Fife Family Cemetery in the historic Fife family estate of "Oak Lawn".