Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1510) 1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518) 1601–1900 1626 – Nurhaci, Chinese emperor (b. 1559) 1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1554) 1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1695) 1770 – George Whitefield, English-American priest and theologian (b. 1714) 1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800) 1866 – Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, Swedo-Finnish treasurer of Tavastia province, manor host, and paternal grandfather of President P. E. Svinhufvud (b. 1804) 1891 – Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1837) 1897 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (b. 1873) 1901–present 1910 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838) 1921 – Fanya Baron, Lithuanian Jewish anarchist (b. 1887) 1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (b. 1919) 1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (b. 1864) 1946 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1887) 1955 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931) 1959 – Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (b. 1877) 1961 – Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1888) 1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902) 1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (b. 1915) 1977 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924) 1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903) 1985 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900) 1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921) 1986 – Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (b. 1908) 1987 – Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913) 1988 – Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946) 1989 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896) 1990 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (b. 1968) 1990 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1930) 1990 – Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) 1991 – Toma Zdravković, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1938) 1994 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) 1998 – Marius Goring, English actor (b. 1912) 1998 – Dan Quisenberry,