Potro, Argentinian tennis player 1988 – Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player 1989 – Brandon Jennings, American basketball player 1989 – Taniela Lasalo, Australian rugby league player 1991 – Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer 1991 – Kim Ki-bum, South Korean singer and entertainer 1991 – Melanie Oudin, American tennis player 1994 – Lee Mi-joo, South Korean singer and entertainer 1999 – Song Yu-qi, Chinese singer Deaths Pre-1600 788 – Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria 965 – Al-Mutanabbi, Arab poet (b. 915) 1193 – Robert de Sablé, French knight 1241 – Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178) 1253 – Wenceslaus I of Bohemia 1267 – Beatrice of Provence, countess regnant of Provence (b. 1234) 1386 – Dan I of Wallachia 1390 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346) 1448 – Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (b. 1373) 1461 – Charles, Prince of Viana, King of Navarre (b. 1421) 1508 – Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1457) 1535 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1513) 1571 – John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522) 1573 – Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524) 1601–1900 1605 – Pontus de Tyard, French priest and poet (b. 1521) 1675 – Valentin Conrart, French author, founded the Académie française (b. 1603) 1728 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1655) 1738 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (b. 1668) 1764 – Robert Dodsley, English poet and playwright (b. 1703) 1773 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718) 1789 – John Rogers, American lawyer and politician (b. 1723) 1835 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801) 1851 – Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun, founded the Sisters of Providence (b. 1800) 1846 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer (b. 1818) 1850 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (b. 1764) 1870 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1803) 1871 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1786) 1873 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823) 1877 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1811) 1889 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1824) 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University (b. 1816) 1901–present 1913 – Donato Álvarez, Argentinian general (b. 1825) 1917 – Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897) 1929 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) 1939 –