1197 – Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1604 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, dies of septicaemia at 38
1842 – Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler’s (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian composer and music theorist, dies at 78
1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, executed by Stalinist regime at 47
1966 – James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs and 19 wkts for England), dies
1976 – Dorothy Devore, actress (Newscast, Senor Daredevil), dies at 77
1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 – Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23