1853 – Maria II, Queen of Portugal (1826-28) and daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, dies of complications from childbirth at 34
1981 – Enid Markey, American actress, 1st to play Tarzan’s Jane, dies at 85
1988 – Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (The Witch of Blackbird Pond), dies at 85
2009 – Derek B [Boland], English rapper and songwriter (“Bad Young Brother”, “Bullet from a Gun”), dies of as heart attack at 44
2011 – Dulcie Gray, British singer, actress, author and lepidopterist (Mine Own Executioner), dies at 95
2016 – Mose Allison, American jazz and blues piano player, singer, and composer (“Everybody’s Cryin Mercy”; “Your Mind Is on Vacation”), dies at 89
2020 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor, playwright and poet (Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy), dies of COVID-19 complications at 85
2020 – Campbell Forsyth, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (4 caps; St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Southampton), dies at 86
2021 – Bobby Collins Jr., American college football coach (head coach University of Southern Mississippi; Southern Methodist University), dies at 88