Roman usurper 926 – Taizu of Liao, Khitan ruler (b. 872) 952 – Suzaku, emperor of Japan (b. 923) 957 – Liudolf, duke of Swabia (b. 930) 972 – John XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 930) 1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1210) 1431 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine admiral and diplomat 1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1481) 1553 – Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1477) 1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan (b. 1494) 1601–1900 1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1579) 1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571) 1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574) 1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, French Controller-General of Finances (b. 1619) 1708 – Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (b. 1623) 1748 – Edmund Gibson, English bishop and scholar (b. 1669) 1783 – Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (b. 1710) 1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (b. 1723) 1836 – Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three terms mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (b. 1781) 1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1797) 1885 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (b. 1819) 1891 – Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (b. 1815) 1901–present 1902 – Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (b. 1827) 1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839) 1919 – Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (b. 1846) 1927 – William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (b. 1855) 1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1907) 1939 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867) 1940 – Thomas Harte (Irish republican), executed prisoner (b. 1915) 1940 – Patrick McGrath (Irish Republican), executed prisoner (b. 1894) 1944 – James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South 1945 – John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (b. 1884) 1949 – Walter Widdop, English tenor and actor (b. 1892) 1950 – Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886) 1951 – James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (b. 1867) 1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1898) 1956 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1904) 1956 – Lee Jung-seob, North