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765 - Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
771 - Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20
771 - Carloman, King of the Franks (b. 751)
811 - Charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39
1075 - Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
1137 - Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67
1182 - Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
1214 - William I of Scotland
1270 - Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
1334 - Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
1340 - Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
1371 - Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1371 - Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
1459 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
1514 - Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)
1576 - Rheticus, mathematician, dies
1585 - John Willock, Scottish reformer
1603 - Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
1642 - Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57
1649 - Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
1649 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
1676 - Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39
1679 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
1680 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
1696 - Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
1732 - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
1807 - Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston
1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1836 - Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79
1884 - Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
1890 - Willem III, Dutch king, buried
1902 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)
1909 - Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
1915 - Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
1926 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
1932 - Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64
1933 - Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
1935 - Hylton Philipson, cricketer (England keeper in 5 Tests 1892-95), dies
1935 - Johan Halvorsen, composer, dies at 71
1938 - Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54
1943 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1944 - Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
1945 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
1948 - Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1952 - Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
1953 - Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80
1954 - Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies
1956 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
1959 - Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1967 - Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
1969 - Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered
1971 - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF Zen Center, dies
1973 - Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
1974 - Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36
1975 - Hannah Arendt, German/US sociologist, dies at 69 [or Dec 5]
1976 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1976 - Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
1976 - W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
1977 - Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72
1978 - Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Neth/US phycists, dies at 76
1979 - Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
1980 - Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69
1983 - Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55
1984 - John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
1985 - Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1986 - Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89
1987 - Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
1988 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
1990 - Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74
1993 - Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
1993 - Frank V Zappa, US music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
1993 - Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42
1993 - Margaret Landon, US author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90
1994 - Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73
1994 - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99
1994 - Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
1994 - Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1994 - Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63
1995 - Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
1995 - Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1996 - Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1996 - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
1997 - David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
1997 - Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
1999 - Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
2003 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)
2004 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (b. 1943)
2005 - Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2005 - Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.1963)
2005 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
2006 - James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
2007 - Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
2007 - Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)
2007 - Pimp C, American Rapper (b. 1973)