1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu writer (Ramayana Kalpa Vrukshamu, Veyipadagalu), dies at 81
1977 – Kristian Hauger, Norwegian jazz pianist, orchestra leader and songwriter (“Charleston i Grukkedalen”), dies at 71
1978 – Jacques Mornard [Ramon Mercader], Spanish communist (murdered Trotsky in Mexico with an ice axe), dies at 64
1994 – Lee Allen, American tenor sax player (“Walkin’ With Mr Lee”), dies of cancer at 68
1999 – Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer and bandleader, dies at 74
2010 – Marion Brown, American jazz alto saxophonist, (Marion Brown Quartet; John Coltrane -“Ascension”; Artie Schepp), avant garde composer, writer, and ethnomusicologist, dies at 79
2013 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German influential literary critic, dies at 93
2014 – Edward Regan, American Republican politician and Comptroller of New York (1979-93), dies at 84
2021 – Colin Powell, American General and 1st Black US Secretary of State (2001-05), dies from complications of COVID-19, blood cancer, and Parkinson’s disease at 84
