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43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
283 - Pope Eutychian
983 - Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28
1254 - Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies
1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)
1383 - Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies
1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist
1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral
1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
1811 - Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54
1815 - Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46
1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
1823 - Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 79
1826 - John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71
1829 - Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer, dies at 45
1834 - Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23
1839 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer, dies at 69
1841 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer, dies at 83
1842 - Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
1860 - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43
1862 - Sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general, dies
1867 - Rudolf Viole, composer, dies at 42
1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
1881 - Julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51
1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89
1899 - Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82
1902 - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies
1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
1912 - George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
1917 - Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91
1938 - Harry Moses, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1887-95), dies
1941 - Cecil Forsyth, composer, dies at 71
1941 - Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1941 - Notable casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 - Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1887)
1941 - Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1918)
1941 - Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1895)
1941 - Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1888)
1943 - John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22
1946 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
1947 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
1948 - Godfrey Turner, composer, dies at 35
1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
1962 - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67
1967 - House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87
1969 - Eric Portman, actor (Naked Edge), dies from heart ailment at 66
1969 - Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65
1969 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1970 - Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1971 - Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90
1972 - Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91
1975 - Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71
1975 - Thornton N Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 78
1977 - Paul Gibb, cricketer (England batsman, 8 Tests), dies
1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
1979 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
1979 - Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82
1979 - Nicolas Born, writer, dies at 41
1979 - Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
1980 - Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
1982 - Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1983 - Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
1983 - Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
1984 - Jeanne Cagney, actress (Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), dies at 65
1984 - Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car (Nascar) driver (b. 1938)
1985 - Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
1985 - Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
1988 - Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1988 - Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47
1988 - Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire
1989 - William Calhoun, professional wrestler (b. 1934)
1990 - Delecta "Dee" Clark, US singer (Raindrops), dies at 52
1990 - Horst Bienek, writer, dies at 60
1990 - Joan Bennett, US actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
1990 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (b. 1904)
1991 - Michael Taylor, Male Model (b. 1913)
1992 - Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79
1992 - Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78
1992 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
1993 - Félix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88
1993 - Janet Margolin, actress (David & Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50
1994 - Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58
1994 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
1995 - Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42
1995 - Tom Burns, editor, dies at 89
1996 - Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43
1996 - Jose Donoso, writer, dies at 72
1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish former footballer (b. 1942)
1998 - John Addison, British composer (b. 1920)
2000 - Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923)
2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)
2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)
2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)
2004 - Jay Van Andel, co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. 1924)
2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892)
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961)
2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (b. 1926)
2006 - Jay McShann, American musician (b. 1910)