French scholar and translator (b. 1654) 1723 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668) 1768 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703) 1785 – Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710) 1786 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712) 1809 – Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728) 1814 – John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732) 1834 – Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802) 1838 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749) 1850 – José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778) 1861 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806) 1870 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818) 1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827) 1897 – William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821) 1901–present 1901 – Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842) 1903 – Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825) 1908 – Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873) 1909 – Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883) 1918 – Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873) 1920 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891) 1924 – Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851) 1925 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848) 1935 – Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872) 1935 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860) 1936 – José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880) 1940 – Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911) 1945 – Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919) 1949 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891) 1958 – Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (b. 1878) 1966 – Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918) 1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) 1970 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908) 1971 – Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914) 1971 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880) 1973 – Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889) 1973 – Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928) 1973 – Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b.