– James II of England (b. 1633) 1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (b. 1686) 1792 – Nguyễn Huệ, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1753) 1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754) 1819 – John Jeffries, American physician and surgeon (b. 1744) 1824 – Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755) 1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1770) 1845 – Thomas Davis, Irish poet and publisher (b. 1814) 1865 – Christian de Meza, Danish general (b. 1792) 1887 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841) 1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836) 1896 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1814) 1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827) 1901–present 1911 – Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840) 1914 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843) 1919 – Maria Nikiforova, Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (b. 1885) 1925 – Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873) 1925 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888) 1931 – Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862) 1932 – Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908) 1932 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) 1933 – George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857) 1936 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867) 1940 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860) 1944 – Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870) 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884) 1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877) 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881) 1955 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1873) 1961 – Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (b. 1915) 1961 – Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1910) 1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, North Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906) 1965 – Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (b. 1886) 1973 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (b. 1932) 1976 – Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (b. 1894) 1977 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947) 1977