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535 - Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
984 - John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies
984 - Pope John XIV
1153 - Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies
1384 - Geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies
1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
1538 - Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake
1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1632 - Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38
1639 - Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41
1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
1648 - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65
1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch, statesman, lynched at 49
1672 - Johan de Witt, advisor of Holland, lynched
1679 - Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
1799 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37
1804 - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1813 - Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
1823 - Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
1825 - Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68
1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
1854 - Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79
1856 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80
1864 - Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 - John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
1885 - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1908 - Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
1910 - Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64
1912 - William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies
1914 - Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
1915 - Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
1917 - JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
1919 - Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies
1919 - Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (b. 1869)
1930 - Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies
1931 - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
1932 - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
1932 - Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
1932 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
1935 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
1945 - A Roda Roda, writer, dies at 73
1947 - Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79
1948 - David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65
1952 - Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies
1959 - Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82
1960 - Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68
1961 - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
1963 - Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
1968 - Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69
1970 - Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
1974 - Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62
1976 - Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69
1978 - Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51
1978 - Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1982 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu), dies of bone cancer at 53
1983 - Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murdered by racist at 15
1985 - Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1986 - Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
1986 - Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
1986 - Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1990 - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
1991 - Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
1991 - Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
1992 - Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
1992 - William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53
1993 - Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80
1994 - Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65
1994 - Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
1995 - Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68
1995 - John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63
1995 - Paul Foster, singer, dies at 75
1995 - Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64
1995 - Von McDaniel, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 - William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
1996 - George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81
1996 - Rio Reiser, rock singer, dies at 46
1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
2001 - Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2006 - Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
2006 - Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (b. 1977)
2007 - Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
2007 - Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)
2008 - Hua Guofeng, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Mao Zedong in 1976 and being replaced by Hu Yaobang in 1981 (b. 1921)
2008 - Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)
2008 - Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)