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872 - Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80
1077 - Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies
1136 - Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered
1417 - John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned
1460 - Guarino da Verona (b. 1370)
1476 - Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
1542 - James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30
1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
1591 - Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies
1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
1732 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80
1734 - Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
1754 - Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58
1760 - Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies
1788 - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
1788 - Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72
1799 - George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66
1823 - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53
1829 - Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74
1838 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
1849 - Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69
1861 - Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42
1861 - George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl min of Foreign affairs, dies at 76
1861 - Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66
1862 - George Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27
1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
1873 - J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies
1886 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27
1893 - Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86
1900 - Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
1903 - William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
1906 - John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78
1909 - Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies
1912 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
1914 - Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73
1918 - Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
1920 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1923 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72
1926 - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64
1927 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
1928 - Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77
1935 - Stanley G Weinbaum, US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies
1938 - Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76
1942 - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61
1945 - Constantino Gaito, composer, dies at 67
1945 - Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan & Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61
1945 - Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday
1945 - Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others, hanged
1947 - Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84
1947 - Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80
1947 - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1948 - Reginald Owen Morris, composer, dies at 62
1950 - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65
1956 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870)
1959 - Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84
1960 - Gregory Ratoff, actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies of leukemia at 63
1963 - Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
1963 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62
1964 - William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58
1965 - Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84
1966 - Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife), dies at 91
1966 - Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60
1966 - Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
1971 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
1973 - Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77
1974 - Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85
1975 - Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
1978 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. 1886)
1979 - Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies
1980 - Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
1985 - Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51
1985 - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85
1985 - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)
1987 - Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies
1989 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989 - Jock Mahoney, actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider), dies at 70
1989 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (Good Bad & Ugly, Sabata), dies at 64
1990 - F Dörrenmatt, writer, dies at 69
1990 - Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94
1990 - Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64
1991 - John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies
1991 - Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
1993 - Myrna Loy, [Williams], US actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88
1994 - Mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75
1994 - Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at 58
1994 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1995 - Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85
1995 - Eric Brown, architect, dies at 84
1995 - Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28
1996 - Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92
1996 - Norman Hackforth, broadcaster, dies at 88
1997 - Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99
1997 - Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82
1997 - Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at 79
1997 - Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
2001 - W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2004 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
2005 - Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
2006 - Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938)
2006 - Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 - Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)