1796 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
1878 – Catherine Beecher, American educator (championed higher education for women), dies at 77
1948 – Isidor Achron, American composer, dies of a heart attack at 55
1967 – John Masefield, British writer and poet (Salt-Water Ballads), Poet Laureate (1930-67), dies at 88
1970 – Leonie “Nelly” Sachs, German Swedish poet and playwright (Nobel prize for Literature 1966), dies at 78
1977 – Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer and erotic poet, dies at 67
1994 – Erik Erikson, American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase “identity crisis”, dies at 91
1996 – Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer, dies on Mt Everest at 35
2001 – (Pierino) Perry Como, American singer (“Catch A Falling Star”) and TV personality (The Perry Como Show) dies at 89
2021 – Higinio Vélez, Cuban baseball manager (Olympic gold 2004; Santiago de Cuba, Cuban National Series 1999–2001), dies from COVID-19 at 73