mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (b. 1625) 1715 – Dom Pérignon, French monk and priest (b. 1638) 1743 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690) 1749 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1675) 1759 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (b. 1712) 1807 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1724) 1821 – Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist (b. 1797) 1836 – Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1756) 1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (b. 1789) 1852 – Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (b. 1812) 1852 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769) 1862 – Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (b. 1793) 1862 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (b. 1834) 1879 – Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (b. 1808) 1891 – Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817) 1898 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857) 1901–present 1901 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843) 1905 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852) 1910 – Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1827) 1916 – José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) 1927 – Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1877) 1931 – Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (b. 1856) 1936 – Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878) 1936 – Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1899) 1937 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850) 1942 – E. S. Gosney, American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation (b. 1855) 1951 – Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (b. 1890) 1952 – John McPhee, Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874) 1959 – Wayne Morris, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914) 1960 – M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic (b. 1908) 1961 – Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (b. 1885) 1962 – Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach (b. 1879) 1965 – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891) 1966 – Gertrude