January 7, 1980 (20 Kang Xi winter months), the American writer Henry Miller's death. 1


1980, Henry Miller, author of the "Tropic of Cancer" (1934) and "Tropic of Capricorn" (1939), died at age 87. His works first published welcomed by Europe, and was considered pornography in his home in the United States, has been banned in 1961.