Paul, French priest and saint (b. 1581) 1674 – Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (b. 1589) 1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615) 1719 – George Smalridge, English bishop (b. 1662) 1730 – Laurence Eusden, English poet and author (b. 1688) 1735 – Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (b. 1705) 1742 – Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (b. 1672) 1783 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1730) 1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (b. 1781) 1833 – Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanitarian and reformer (b. 1772) 1838 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1777) 1876 – Braxton Bragg, American general (b. 1817) 1886 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (b. 1804) 1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (b. 1812) 1898 – Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (b. 1860) 1901–present 1911 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic (b. 1844) 1915 – Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1858) 1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834) 1919 – Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (b. 1843) 1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (b. 1854) 1934 – Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858) 1935 – Alan Gray, English composer and organist (b. 1855) 1940 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (b. 1892) 1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) 1942 – Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (b. 1919) 1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890) 1956 – Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (b. 1901) 1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911) 1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882) 1961 – Hilda Doolittle. American poet, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1886) 1965 – Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905) 1965 – William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876) 1967 – Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1887) 1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (b. 1892) 1974 – Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and academic (b. 1907) 1975 – Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876) 1979 – Gracie Fields, English actress and singer (b. 1898) 1979 –