1286 – Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60
1539 – Guru Nanak, Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru, dies at 70
1952 – Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage, The Cross-Patch), dies at 63
1953 – William Brann, South African cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies at 54
1960 – Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), dies at 78
1979 – Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-British physicist who coined the term nuclear fission (Manhattan Project), and educator (Cambridge), dies at 74
1994 – Edward Shackleton, English explorer, geographer and Labour Party politician, dies at 83
2010 – Eddie Fisher, American pop singer (“Oh My Papa”: I’m Walking Behind You”), dies from complications from hip surgery at 82
2021 – Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold bantamweight 1972), dies at 77
2025 – Aron Bell [Bielski], Polish-American WW? resistance fighter and scout for the Bielski partisans, dies at 98
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