Deaths Pre-1600 264 – Sun Xiu, Chinese emperor (b. 235) 618 – Xue Ju, emperor of Qin 863 – Umar al-Aqta, Arab emir 931 – Uda, emperor of Japan (b. 867) 1120 – Gerard Thom (The Blessed Gerard), founder of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c. 1040) 1189 – Jacob of Orléans, French Jewish scholar 1301 – Alberto I della Scala, Lord of Verona 1313 – Anna of Bohemia (b. 1290) 1354 – Joanikije II, Serbian patriarch and saint 1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (b. c. 1352) 1402 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Italian son of Galeazzo II Visconti (b. 1351) 1420 – Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1340) 1467 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1434) 1592 – Robert Greene, English author and playwright (b. 1558) 1601–1900 1609 – Jean Richardot, Belgian diplomat (b. 1540) 1634 – Edward Coke, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1552) 1653 – Claudius Salmasius, French scholar and author (b. 1588) 1658 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician (b. 1599) 1720 – Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French general and diplomat (b. 1648) 1729 – Jean Hardouin, French historian and scholar (b. 1646) 1766 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian and author (b. 1686) 1808 – John Montgomery, American merchant and politician (b. 1722) 1857 – John McLoughlin, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1784) 1866 – Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830) 1877 – Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (b. 1797) 1883 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1818) 1886 – William W. Snow, American lawyer and politician (b. 1812) 1893 – James Harrison, Scottish-Australian engineer, journalist, and politician (b. 1816) 1901–present 1901 – Evelyn Abbott, English classical scholar (b. 1843) 1906 – Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1846) 1914 – Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (b. 1865) 1929 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (b. 1840) 1936 – Nikita Balieff, Armenian-Russian puppeteer and director (b. 1876) 1942 – Will James, Canadian-American author and illustrator (b. 1892) 1942 – Séraphine Louis, French painter (b. 1864) 1944 – John Lumsden, Irish physician, founded the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland (b. 1869) 1948 – Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) 1954 – Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (b. 1887) 1961 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman