1313 – Gottfried von Hagenau, Alsatian theologian, medical doctor, and poet 1327 – Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet (b. 1257) 1328 – Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (b. 1263) 1345 – William II, Count of Hainaut 1371 – Jovan Uglješa, Serbian despot 1413 – Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1337) 1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian cardinal (b. 1360) 1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal and theologian (b. 1388) 1536 – Didier de Saint-Jaille, 46th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller 1588 – Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (b. 1532) 1600 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530) 1601–1900 1620 – Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582) 1623 – Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (b. 1540) 1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1554) 1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1666) 1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar (b. 1676) 1800 – William Billings, American composer and educator (b. 1746) 1802 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician and physicist (b. 1754) 1820 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (b. 1734) 1846 – Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (b. 1760) 1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790) 1877 – Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809) 1901–present 1902 – Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829) 1904 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author and academic (b. 1850) 1904 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1848) 1922 – Charles Wade, Australian politician, 17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863) 1935 – Andy Adams, American author (b. 1859) 1935 – Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and author (b. 1861) 1937 – Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894) 1943 – Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b. 1926) 1945 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1881) 1946 – William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (b. 1869) 1947 – Hugh Lofting, English-American author and poet (b. 1886) 1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (b. 1885) 1952 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (b. 1863) 1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and educator (b. 1895) 1954 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868) 1957 – Arthur Powell Davies, American minister and author (b. 1902) 1959 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th