Parmigianino, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1503) 1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal (b. 1483) 1572 – Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (b. 1519) 1572 – Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1535) 1595 – Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1546) 1601–1900 1617 – Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586) 1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586) 1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and author (b. 1614) 1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish colonel (b. 1618) 1680 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1616) 1683 – John Owen, English theologian and academic (b. 1616) 1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet and soldier (b. 1715) 1770 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and prodigy (b. 1752) 1779 – Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek monk and saint (b. 1714) 1798 – Thomas Alcock, English priest and author (b. 1709) 1804 – Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (b. 1760) 1818 – James Carr, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777) 1821 – John William Polidori, English writer and physician (b. 1795) 1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796) 1832 – Richard Weymouth, British Royal Navy commander (b. 1780/81) 1838 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790) 1841 – Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788) 1841 – John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778) 1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822) 1895 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855) 1901–present 1923 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856) 1930 – Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860) 1932 – Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861) 1939 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874) 1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860) 1943 – Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886) 1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909) 1946 – James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862) 1954 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882) 1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898) 1958 – Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876) 1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum