1555 – Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader who fought for the Duke of Guelders, dies at about 76
1626 – Anne of Saint Bartholomew, Flemish Roman Catholic nun, dies at 76
1935 – Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Russian botanist (more than 300 new types of fruit), dies at 79
1937 – Jean Harlow [Harlean Carpentier], American actress and 1930s’ sex goddess (Dinner at 8; Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1967, dies at 80
1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn), dies of circulatory complications at 88
2001 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones), dies of a heart attack at 49
2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2011 – Hubert Du Plessis, South African pianist and composer, dies at 88
2020 – Frank Bey [Bass], American blues singer-songwriter (“All My Dues Are Paid”), dies at 74
