English cardinal and academic (b. 1420) 1504 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of the Palatinate (b. 1478) 1510 – Saint Catherine of Genoa (b. 1447) 1559 – Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (d. 1519) 1595 – John MacMorran, Baillie of Edinburgh, shot by rioting high school schoolchildren. 1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535) 1601–1900 1613 – Thomas Overbury, English poet and author (b. 1581) 1643 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, English-Irish politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1566) 1649 – John Floyd, English priest and educator (b. 1572) 1700 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener (b. 1613) 1701 – Edmé Boursault, French author and playwright (b. 1638) 1707 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663) 1712 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1645) 1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (b. 1690) 1794 – Abraham Clark, American police officer and politician (b. 1725) 1803 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (b. 1719) 1813 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (b. 1752) 1830 – François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759) 1830 – William Huskisson, English financier and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (b. 1770) 1841 – Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757) 1842 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771) 1842 – Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (b. 1792) 1852 – Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770) 1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806) 1864 – John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827) 1874 – Charles-Amédée Kohler, Swiss chocolatier (b. 1790) 1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801) 1893 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807) 1901–present 1915 – Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834) 1921 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886) 1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846) 1930 – Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882) 1938 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900) 1940 – William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874) 1945 – André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876) 1945 –