1994 – Tom Opacic, Australian rugby league player 1994 – Kento Yamazaki, Japanese actor 1996 – Donovan Mitchell, American basketball player 1999 – Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist Deaths Pre-1600 251 – Sima Yi, Chinese general and politician (b. 179) 355 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman general 859 – Emperor Xuānzong of Tang, Chinese emperor (b. 810) 934 – Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general (b. 874) 1134 – Alfonso the Battler, Spanish emperor (b. 1073) 1151 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (b. 1113) 1202 – William of the White Hands, French cardinal (b. 1135) 1251 – Viola, Duchess of Opole 1303 – Gregory Bicskei, archbishop of Esztergom 1312 – Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285) 1354 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306) 1362 – Joan of the Tower (b. 1321) 1464 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1412) 1496 – Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469) 1559 – Robert Estienne, English-French printer and scholar (b. 1503) 1566 – Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Croatian general (b. 1506) 1573 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (b. 1535) 1601–1900 1601 – John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1529) 1619 – Melchior Grodziecki, Polish priest and saint (b. 1582) 1619 – Marko Krizin, Croatian priest, missionary, and saint (b. 1589) 1622 – Denis Godefroy, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1549) 1626 – Edward Villiers, English noble and politician (b. c. 1585) 1644 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1579) 1655 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French author and playwright (b. 1601) 1657 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (b. 1606) 1685 – William Carpenter, English-American settler, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (b. 1605) 1729 – William Burnet, Dutch-American civil servant and politician, 21st Governor of the Province of New York (b. 1688) 1741 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (b. 1689) 1798 – Peter Frederik Suhm, Danish-Norwegian historian and author (b. 1728) 1799 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (b. 1717) 1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (b. 1737) 1833 – Hannah More, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist (b. 1745) 1840 – Jacques MacDonald, French general (b. 1765) 1871 – Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. 1826) 1871 – Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Ottoman politician, 217th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1815) 1881 – Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (b. 1842) 1891 – Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1820)