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273 - Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274)
1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
1460 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411)
1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
1591 - Innocent IX, [Giovanni Facchinetti], Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72
1621 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1635 - Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies
1640 - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
1777 - Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50
1788 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45
1821 - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42
1825 - Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64
1828 - Waldemar Thrane, composer, dies at 38
1832 - Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
1870 - ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered
1893 - Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72
1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1895 - LP Hartley, British writer, dies
1896 - Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies
1899 - James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1908 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
1912 - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60
1931 - Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62
1940 - Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79
1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
1943 - Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76
1944 - Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1946 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65
1947 - Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58
1951 - Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 76
1952 - Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
1955 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
1959 - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76
1961 - Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53
1966 - Christian A Herter, US Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
1966 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st UN sect-general (1946-53), dies at 72
1967 - Bert Berns, US songwriter/producer (Twist & Shout), dies at about 38
1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
1968 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
1971 - Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58
1971 - Jan Mul, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
1973 - Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101
1979 - Richard Rodgers, composer (Rogers & Hammerstein), dies at 77
1981 - Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
1984 - Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
1986 - Jiri Jaroch, composer, dies at 66
1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
1989 - Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
1989 - Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
1992 - Caesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies
1992 - Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
1993 - Mack David, US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
1993 - [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
1994 - Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79
1995 - Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66
1995 - Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
1996 - Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
1996 - Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88
1996 - Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89
1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
1998 - George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
2002 - Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941)
2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
2005 - Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
2006 - Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad
2006 - Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (b. 1938) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War
2006 - Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
2008 - Dick Green, Canadian actor