– Thomas Chittenden, Governor of the Vermont Republic (later 1st Governor of the State of Vermont) (b. 1730) 1819 – James Watt, Scottish-English engineer and instrument maker (b. 1736) 1822 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738) 1867 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791) 1882 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803) 1886 – Zinovios Valvis, Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791) 1892 – William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1808) 1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844) 1901–present 1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836) 1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) 1916 – Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851) 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886) 1924 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818) 1924 – Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858) 1925 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852) 1930 – Frankie Campbell, American boxer (b. 1904) 1931 – Dorothea Fairbridge, South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (b. 1862) 1936 – Juliette Adam, French author (b. 1836) 1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (b. 1870) 1939 – Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904) 1940 – Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874) 1942 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902) 1945 – John Birch, American soldier and missionary (b. 1918) 1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (b. 1894) 1965 – Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879) 1966 – Lao She, Chinese novelist and dramatist (b. 1899) 1967 – Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883) 1967 – Oscar Cabalén, Argentine race car driver (b. 1928) 1967 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (b. 1895) 1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (b. 1918) 1968 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910) 1969 – Robert Cosgrove, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1884) 1970 – Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886) 1971 – Ted Lewis, American singer and clarinet player (b. 1890) 1973 – Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and