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535 - Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466)
695 - Begga, ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies [or 693]
942 - William Longsword
1187 - Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
1195 - Boudouin V, count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies
1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
1213 - Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53
1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
1471 - Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies
1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82
1651 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81
1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1679 - Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
1711 - Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies
1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
1751 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
1811 - John Antes, composer, dies at 71
1811 - Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54
1829 - Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80
1830 - Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia
1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21
1847 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
1860 - Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
1870 - Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75
1881 - Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62
1891 - Msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle
1891 - Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle
1893 - Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
1899 - Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle
1907 - Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83
1913 - Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61
1916 - Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated
1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
1917 - Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1925 - A N "Monkey" Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies
1926 - Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70
1930 - Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36
1933 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
1937 - Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72
1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
1944 - Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26
1944 - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies
1946 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84
1948 - Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68
1949 - David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72
1956 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48
1957 - Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
1961 - Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
1962 - Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70
1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
1965 - Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76
1966 - Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68
1967 - Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1967 - [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago Ill, architect, dies at 83
1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
1969 - Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
1972 - Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63
1973 - Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
1973 - Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74
1975 - Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1975 - Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
1982 - Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
1982 - Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90
1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
1983 - Erik Christensen, NHL player
1985 - Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
1986 - Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 - Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
1987 - Linda Wong, American porn star (b. 1951)
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
1990 - Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
1990 - Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79
1991 - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
1992 - Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
1993 - Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer
1994 - Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
1995 - Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
1996 - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
1996 - Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85
1996 - Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 - Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22
1996 - Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61
1996 - Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
1997 - Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86
1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
2002 - James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
2003 - Brian Lee, father of Wikipedia user, James Lee (b. 1948)
2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
2004 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (b. 1929)
2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2008 - Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955)
2008 - Sammy Baugh, American football player (b. 1914)
2008 - Freddy Breck, German schlager singer, composer, record producer and news anchor (b. 1942)