1870 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (Les Chants de Maldoror), dies at 24
1898 – Bartel Wilton, Dutch ship builder, dies at 70
1943 – Reina Prinsen Geerligs, Dutch aspiring poet who became an anti-fascist resistance fighter, murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp at 22
1943 – Doris Miller, American US Navy cook and Pearl Harbor hero (Navy Cross), killed in action in Battle of the Gilbert Islands at 24
1946 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor, dies of leukemia at 51
1953 – Robert Lightfoot, English Anglican theologist and exegetist (St John’s Gospel), dies at 70
2010 – Huang Hua, Chinese statesman (b. 1913)
2011 – Fjölnir Stefánsson, Icelandic composer, dies at 81
2022 – Börje Salming, Swedish Hockey HOF defenseman (first European born and trained player to appear in 1,000 career NHL games; Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings; NHL All Star First Team 1977), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 71
2024 – Helen Gallagher, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning singer, dancer, and actress (No, No, Nanette; Ryan’s Hope – “Maeve”), dies at 98
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