Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō (b. 1536) 1601–1900 1630 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (b. 1552) 1675 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604) 1721 – Matthew Prior, English poet, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b. 1664) 1722 – André Dacier, French scholar and academic (b. 1651) 1783 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707) 1783 – Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar (b. 1718) 1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (b. 1704) 1812 – Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman politician, 186th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1743) 1830 – William Hazlitt, English philosopher, painter, and critic (b. 1778) 1857 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785) 1860 – Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805) 1862 – Joseph K. Mansfield, American general (b. 1803) 1872 – Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826) 1890 – Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820) 1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819) 1901–present 1905 – George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824) 1909 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (b. 1850) 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1862) 1915 – Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree 1924 – F. H. Bradley, English philosopher and author (b. 1846) 1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, painter, and photographer (b. 1885) 1941 – Fred Karno, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1866) 1944 – Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1915) 1945 – Volin, Russian anarchist intellectual (b. 1882) 1949 – Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890) 1951 – Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (b. 1866) 1952 – Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano and actress (b. 1879) 1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927) 1956 – Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (b. 1892) 1958 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873) 1959 – Benjamin Péret, French poet and journalist (b. 1899) 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) 1962 – Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898) 1964 – Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (b. 1880) 1967 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) 1968 – Franchot