1558 – Roxelana, wife of Otttoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, dies at ~54
1612 – Emanuel Van Meteren, Flemish merchant and historian, dies at 76
1871 – Omar Pasha [Mihajlo Latas], Serbian-Ottoman field marshal (Crimean War) and Governor (Bosnia, Iraq), dies at 64
1906 – Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, dies at 59
1928 – Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor, dies of a heart attack at 58
1944 – Thomas Hitchcock Jr., American polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39), dies testing a new fighter plane during WWII at 44
1955 – Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity), dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at 76
1995 – Arturo Frondizi, 35th President of Argentina (1958-62), dies at 86
2019 – Lorraine Warren, American paranormal investigator (Amityville haunting), dies in her sleep at 92
2022 – Harrison Birtwistle, British contemporary classical composer (The Minotaur; The Mask of Orpheus), dies at 87