– Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1763) 1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (b. 1788) 1853 – James Iredell, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788) 1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1796) 1868 – Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818) 1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and author (b. 1813) 1882 – Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809) 1886 – John Humphrey Noyes, American religious leader, founded the Oneida Community (b. 1811) 1890 – Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1828) 1901–present 1909 – Whitley Stokes, Anglo-Irish lawyer and scholar (b. 1830) 1910 – William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish-English painter and educator (b. 1835) 1911 – John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852) 1911 – George Washington Glick, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827) 1912 – Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet and author (b. 1886) 1917 – Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1856) 1918 – Lavr Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870) 1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician, Mayor of Frankfurt (b. 1866) 1936 – Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician 129th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876) 1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author (b. 1888) 1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (b. 1863) 1941 – William Twaits, Canadian soccer player (b. 1879) 1942 – Henk Sneevliet, Dutch politician (b. 1883) 1942 – Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (b. 1879) 1944 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (b. 1857) 1945 – Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (b. 1874) 1954 – Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880) 1954 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890) 1956 – Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and educator (b. 1867) 1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch pianist, violinist, and conductor (b. 1901) 1961 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (b. 1936) 1962 – Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876) 1966 – Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi colonel and politician, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921) 1966 – Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881) 1966 – Georges Duhamel, French soldier and author (b. 1884) 1967 – Nicole Berger, French actress (b. 1934) 1969 – Alfred