1857 – Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (Statue of Freedom on dome of US Capitol), dies of cancer at 43
1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player, dies at 48
1939 – Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1963 – Édith Piaf [Édith Giovanna Gassion], French singer (No, I Don’t Regret Anything; Le Vie En Rose), dies of liver failure at 47
1967 – Ervin Major, Hungarian composer, dies at 66
1976 – Connee Boswell, American jazz singer (Pete Kelly’s Blue), dies at 68
1979 – Paul Paray, French organist, conductor (Detroit Symphony, 1951-62), and composer, dies at 93
2015 – Hilla Becher (née Wobeser), German artist, worked collaboratively with husband Bernd Becher, dies at 81
2018 – Mary Midgley, British-American philosopher (Animals and Why They Matter), dies at 99
2020 – Leon Biriotti, Uruguayan composer and oboist, dies at 90
