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384 - Pope Damasus I
711 - Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42
1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
1282 - Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies
1282 - Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1524 - Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake
1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
1573 - Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged
1582 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75
1595 - Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69
1610 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32
1610 - Forges Dimitri 2, czar of Russia, murdered
1686 - Louis II Condé, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65
1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1718 - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead
1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
1747 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675)
1748 - Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55
1756 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies
1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1817 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34
1831 - John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55
1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1847 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25
1857 - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73
1872 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
1891 - Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
1892 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
1899 - Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle
1899 - Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle
1902 - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68
1903 - Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies
1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1911 - Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92
1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42
1930 - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
1933 - Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
1941 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1955 - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51
1955 - Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79
1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1964 - Percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76
1964 - Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29
1967 - Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC
1967 - Richard Stohr, composer, dies at 93
1967 - Victor De Sabata, composer, dies at 75
1968 - Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59
1971 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
1972 - John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies
1972 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66
1974 - Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
1975 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1978 - Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
1979 - Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
1979 - James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
1983 - Szymon Laks, composer, dies at 82
1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
1984 - George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90
1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
1986 - Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy), dies at 30
1987 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1990 - Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies at 92
1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
1991 - Daniel Simon Scott, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 71
1991 - Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
1991 - Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70
1992 - Michael Robbins, actor (Lunch Hour, On the Buses), dies at 62
1992 - Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at about 90
1993 - Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45
1993 - Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian/French actress (Le roi), dies at 99
1994 - Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102
1994 - Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979), dies
1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1995 - Arthur Mullard, comedian, dies at 82
1995 - John Heawood, actor singer/choreographer (Pleasure Garden), dies at 75
1995 - Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist, dies at 69
1996 - Herbert Sally Frankel, economist, dies at 93
1996 - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95
1996 - W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82
1996 - William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59
1997 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at 73
1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (b. 1968)
2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)
2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)
2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
2004 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890)
2007 - Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2007 - Grace Paley, American writer (b. 1922)
2007 - Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian Actress (b. 1981)