1846 - The death of Franz Mehring, the left-wing leader of the German Social Democratic Party, political commentator and historian.

1892 - French fashion design master Louis Vuitton died at the age of 71.

1910——Xiong Chengji, a member of the Tongmenghui, died.

1936 - Pavlov Ivan Petrovitch, a famous Soviet physiologist and winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology, passed away.

1975——The famous dramatist Jiao Juyin passed away.

1983——Fan Shoukang, a famous philosopher and member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, passed away.

1989——The 1973 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz passed away.

1998——The 1988 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and American doctor George H. Hitchings passed away.

2009——Wu Shishu, a famous scientist, educator and one of the founders of physics, passed away at the age of 86.

2013——Van Cliburn, a famous American pianist whose representative works include "Rachmaninoff", died at the age of 79.

2015: Comrade Hua Nan, former deputy director of the General Political Department and former president of the People's Liberation Army Newspaper, passed away at the age of 94.