1524 – Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80
1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish conquistador and 1st European to discover the Mississippi River, dies of a fever while searching for gold, near the Mississippi River at about 46
1860 – Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, Danish violinist and composer, dies at 53
1935 – Jane Addams, American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931), dies at 65
1935 – Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist who rediscovered Mendel’s theory of heredity and for his work on genes (The Mutation Theory), dies at 87
1949 – Klaus Mann, German-American author (Mephisto), dies at 42
1954 – János Hammerschlag, Hungarian composer, dies at 68
1978 – Jo Spier [Joseph Spier], Dutch cartoonist and water color painter, dies at 77
1996 – Laurence Dowdall, Scottish lawyer, dies at 91
2022 – Marco Cornez, Chilean soccer goalkeeper, (20 caps; FC Deportivo Palestino, Universidad Católica, Everton de Viña del Mar), dies from stomach cancer at 64