– John Ogilby, Scottish-born impresario and cartographer (b. 1600) 1767 – Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1725) 1780 – John Fielding, English lawyer and judge (b. 1721) 1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (b. 1714) 1794 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1724) 1804 – Richard Somers, American lieutenant (b. 1778) 1820 – Timothy Brown, English banker and merchant (b. 1743/4) 1821 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (b. 1785) 1849 – Friedrich Laun, German author (b. 1770) 1852 – William MacGillivray, Scottish biologist and ornithologist (b. 1796) 1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American general (b. 1825) 1901–present 1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1843) 1909 – Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1865) 1911 – John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854) 1914 – Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873) 1923 – Howdy Wilcox, American racing driver (b. 1889) 1940 – George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869) 1944 – Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886) 1963 – Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886) 1965 – Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875) 1974 – Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914) 1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899) 1974 – Charles Arnison, English airman (b. 1893) 1974 – Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (b. 1884) 1977 – Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899) 1977 – Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (b. 1894) 1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German-English economist and statistician (b. 1911) 1982 – Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter (b. 1900) 1985 – Vasyl Stus, Ukrainian poet, publicist, and dissident (b. 1938) 1985 – George O'Brien, American actor and singer (b. 1899) 1986 – Otto Glória, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1917) 1986 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911) 1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1908) 1989 – Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (b. 1903) 1989 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and author (b. 1903) 1990 – Lawrence A. Cremin, American historian and author (b. 1925) 1990 – Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (b. 1898) 1990 – Turan Dursun, Turkish scholar and author (b. 1934) 1991 – Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1913) 1991