1612. Great earthquake at Munster.
1643. John Pym died; a celebrated English republican, distinguished for his virulence against Charles I.
1660. First time of the appearance of a female on the public stage; the character was Desdemona.
1661. An order of both houses of parliament was passed for hanging the carcasses of Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride upon the gallows at Tyburn, and then burying them under the gallows.
1677. Nicholas Pavillon, an eminent French ecclesiastic, made bishop of Alet by Richelieu, and afterwards deposed, died in exile.
1691. Richard Baxter, a celebrated English nonconformist divine, died. He wrote a vast number of books; his practical works were collected in 4 vols. folio.
1695. Bartholomew d'Herbelot, a French orientalist, died. He wrote a Universal Dictionary, "containing whatever relates to the knowledge of the eastern world."
1709. Thomas Corneille, a French dramatist, died. He wrote 42 dramatic pieces, which were received with greater applause than those of his brother Peter, but have been lost and forgotten.
1741. Vitus Behring, a Danish navigator, died. He was a commodore in the Russian service, and was employed in exploring some of the northern coasts of America, where he died, after having made some important discoveries, among which was the strait that bears his name.
1745. John Roque, a French traveler, died at Paris. He published an account of his travels in Arabia Felix, Palestine and Syria.