1504) 1600 – John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (b. 1577) 1601–1900 1610 – Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and politician, Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1552) 1633 – George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (b. 1562) 1678 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican tenor and composer (b. 1619) 1729 – Thomas Newcomen, English engineer, invented the eponymous Newcomen atmospheric engine (b. 1664) 1743 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English courtier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (b. 1696) 1778 – Charles Clémencet, French historian and author (b. 1703) 1778 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (b. 1756) 1792 – Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732) 1799 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician (b. 1726) 1868 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788) 1877 – Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b. 1830) 1880 – Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816) 1881 – Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823) 1895 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820) 1901–present 1901 – Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and German Empress (b. 1840) 1904 – George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834) 1911 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864) 1916 – George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885) 1921 – Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844) 1929 – Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847) 1933 – Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856) 1935 – David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891) 1939 – Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865) 1944 – Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906) 1946 – Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863) 1948 – Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871) 1952 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917) 1955 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909) 1957 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) 1959 – Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881) 1960 – Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b.