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14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
440 - Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
472 - Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies
1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
1493 - Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1580 - Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1601 - Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1650 - Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55
1654 - Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1691 - Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
1699 - Jose Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69
1719 - Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52
1744 - Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46
1753 - [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66
1780 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
1795 - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
1812 - Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56
1813 - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
1813 - Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
1851 - Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
1872 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
1876 - George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36
1881 - Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79
1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1888 - Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
1889 - Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
1892 - Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62
1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1909 - Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
1912 - Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1922 - Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1929 - Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
1936 - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
1944 - Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1944 - Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75
1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
1947 - Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 - Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1958 - Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63
1959 - Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1962 - Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
1963 - Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
1967 - Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84
1967 - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/Eng historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60
1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1968 - Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1971 - Walther Victor, writer, dies
1974 - ... Davies, US ambassador on Cyprus, murdered
1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1976 - Alastair Sim, actor (Christmas Carol, Green for Danger), dies at 75
1976 - Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
1976 - Ken Wadsworth, cricketer (Exciting NZ keeper), dies of cancer at 29
1977 - Groucho Martin, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
1979 - Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1981 - Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74
1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 - Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
1986 - Jacob A W Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81
1986 - Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
1987 - Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies
1990 - Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80
1992 - Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
1993 - Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
1993 - Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
1994 - John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59
1994 - Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
1994 - Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
1994 - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64
1994 - Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78
1995 - Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85
2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
2001 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2008 - Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician
2008 - LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b.1961)
2009 - Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)