– Aiden Moffat, British race car driver 1998 – Panna Udvardy, Hungarian tennis player 1999 – Kayla Day, American tennis player Deaths Pre-1600 48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC) 135 AD – Rabbi Akiva, Jewish sage, martyr. (b. c. 50) 782 – Leoba, Anglo-Saxon nun (b. c. 710) 935 – Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia (b. c. 907) 980 – Minamoto no Hiromasa, Japanese nobleman (b. 918) 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165) 1213 – Gertrude of Merania, queen consort of Hungaria (b. 1185) 1330 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292) 1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia, duchess consort of Austria (b. 1394) 1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1506) 1596 – Margaret Clifford, countess of Derby (b. 1540) 1601–1900 1618 – Josuah Sylvester, English poet and translator (b. 1563) 1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (b. 1623) 1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618) 1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, French-English lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1640) 1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663) 1805 – Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (b. 1724) 1829 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771) 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769) 1859 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779) 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832) 1891 – Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819) 1893 – Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (b. 1826) 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822) 1899 – Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858) 1901–present 1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863) 1915 – Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844) 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858) 1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896) 1920 – Yu Gwansun, Korean Independence Activist (b. 1902) 1925 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (b. 1888) 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860) 1938 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861) 1941 – Marion Miley, American golfer, ranked No. 1 in the United States (b. 1914) 1943 – Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (b. 1913) 1943 – Filippo Illuminato,