1606 – Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator convicted in the “Gunpowder Plot” to blow up the British Parliament, hanged at 35
1729 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch navigator and explorer (1st European to discover Easter Island), dies at 69
1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral and naval commander during the American War for Independence, dies at 82 or 83
1844 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general and engineer, dies at 70
1940 – René Schickele, German-French writer, sometimes under nom de plume ‘Sascha’ (Erbe am Rhein), poet, and magazine editor (Weissen Blätter), dies at 56
2000 – Anne Cox Chambers, American media owner (Cox Enterprises) and US ambassador to Belgium (1977-81), dies at 100
2014 – Christopher Jones, American actor, dies from cancer at 72
2014 – Paul Humphrey, American jazz, RandB, and rock session and touring drummer, dies at 78
2017 – Deke [Roger] Leonard, Welsh rock musician (Man), dies at 72
2020 – Johnny Bumphus, American boxer (WBA super lightweight title 1984), dies at 59