1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (President of the National Convention, Member of Committee of Public Safety), executed by guillotine at 36
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 – Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies at 50
1904 – Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies
1956 – Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83
1960 – Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola), dies at 60
1971 – Diane Arbus [Nemerov], American photographer (Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar), commits suicide at 48
1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1989 – Jeff Richards [Richard Mansfield Taylor], American actor (Don’t Go Near the Water), dies of acute respiratory failure at 64
2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)