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343 - Saint Nicholas
1185 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76
1352 - Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies
1531 - John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded
1550 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48
1562 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies
1598 - Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78
1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
1640 - Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75
1651 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68
1658 - Gracian, writer, dies
1716 - Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
1788 - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
1793 - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded
1799 - Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71
1834 - Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54
1855 - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
1865 - Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56
1867 - Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71
1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
1868 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1869 - Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54
1873 - Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24
1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
1882 - A Trollope, writer, dies
1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
1889 - Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81
1889 - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, dies at 48
1892 - E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75
1903 - Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54
1914 - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47
1920 - Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
1926 - Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86
1933 - Auguste Chapuis, composer, dies at 75
1934 - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
1940 - Charlie Hime, cricketer (one Test for S Africa 1895), dies
1943 - Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies at 69
1943 - Hermann Lohr, composer, dies at 72
1946 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, dies at 63
1949 - Leadbelly, [Huddie William Ledbetter], blues singer, dies at 64
1951 - J Edward Bromberg, dies at 47
1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
1953 - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48
1955 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874)
1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891)
1958 - Erwin Bodky, composer, dies at 62
1959 - Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
1961 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
1963 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary), dies at 81
1964 - Consuelo Vanderbilt (b. 1877)
1965 - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90
1966 - Hermann Heiss, composer, dies at 68
1970 - Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65
1971 - Hugo Godron, composer, dies at 71
1971 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Plough), dies at 86
1972 - Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38
1973 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94
1973 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81
1976 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1983 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
1984 - Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90
1985 - Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
1985 - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
1986 - Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22
1987 - James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies
1988 - Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63
1988 - Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52
1989 - Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86
1989 - John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77
1989 - Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87
1989 - John Payne, American movie actor (b. 1912)
1990 - Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies
1991 - Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62
1991 - Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies
1992 - Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural causes at 91
1992 - Percy Herbert, actor (Capt Apache), dies of heart attack at 72
1993 - Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85
1993 - Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
1993 - Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of heart attack at 65
1993 - Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered
1994 - AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80
1994 - Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69
1994 - Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
1995 - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67
1995 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist, dies at 86
1995 - John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48
1995 - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
1995 - Leslie Wilkinson, journalist, dies at 97
1995 - [Schaff] Claire Polin, composer, dies at 69
1996 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83
1996 - [Alvin] Pete Rozelle, commissioner (NFL), dies at 70
1997 - Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68
1997 - Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91
1997 - Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89
1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
2000 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman & winner of numerous Whitbread and America's Cup sailing contests, killed by pirates on the Amazon River at age 53
2001 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
2002 - Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
2003 - Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2003 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
2005 - Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
2005 - Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
2006 - John Feeney, Documentary film-director (b. 1922)
2007 - Katy French, Irish Supermodel and Socialite (b. 1983)