Duke of Lorraine 1340 – Bolesław Jerzy II of Mazovia (b. 1308) 1498 – Charles VIII of France (b. 1470) 1499 – Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (b. 1442) 1501 – Minkhaung II, king of Ava (b. 1446) 1601–1900 1606 – Edward Oldcorne, English martyr (b. 1561) 1614 – El Greco, Greek-Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1541) 1638 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō (b. 1576) 1651 – Lennart Torstensson, Swedish field marshal and engineer (b. 1603) 1658 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic and philosopher (b. 1595) 1661 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician (b. 1604) 1663 – Francis Cooke, English-American settler (b. 1583) 1668 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright (b. 1606) 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and saint, founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (b. 1651) 1739 – Dick Turpin, English criminal (b. 1705) 1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1676) 1761 – Thomas Bayes, English minister and mathematician (b. 1701) 1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685) 1767 – Franz Sparry, Austrian composer and director (b. 1715) 1779 – Martha Ray, English singer (b.1746) 1782 – Taksin, Thai king (b. 1734) 1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1725) 1789 – Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (b. 1722) 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer and author (b. 1724) 1804 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian general (b. 1743) 1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757) 1823 – Jacques Charles, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746) 1833 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Lithuanian composer and politician (b. 1775) 1836 – William Godwin, English journalist and author (b. 1756) 1849 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777) 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762) 1858 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (b. 1781) 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician (b. 1825) 1879 – Begum Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (b. 1820) 1884 – Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (b. 1803) 1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (b. 1804) 1889 – Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese soldier and politician (b. 1823) 1889 – Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876 (b. 1823) 1891 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman and