1645 – Tobias Hume, Scottish composer (The First Part of Ayres), dies
1850 – Marie Tussaud, French founder of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, dies at 88
1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies from tuberculosis at 35 in Nevers, France
1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, dies at 73
1924 – Jack Board, English cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies at 57
1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies of ovarian cancer at 37
1970 – Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
2007 – Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
2010 – Marion Ladewig, American ten-pin bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63), dies at 95
2020 – Luis Sepúlveda, Chilean writer and political activist (The Old Man Who Read Love Stories), dies of COVID-19 at 70