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Results 1 - 112 of 112

616 - King Ethelbert of Kent
1525 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 - Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
1588 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1642 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
1666 - Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
1674 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1686 - Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
1692 - Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74
1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
1714 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 - Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1735 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56
1777 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 - Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1784 - Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
1785 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
1799 - Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
1799 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
1806 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1810 - Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
1812 - Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
1812 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1815 - Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies
1825 - Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
1829 - Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
1862 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1874 - Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
1876 - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1876 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1895 - Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
1907 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
1908 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
1914 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1919 - Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
1922 - Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1924 - Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
1925 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1926 - Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
1929 - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
1930 - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
1933 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
1941 - Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1944 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
1945 - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1953 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
1958 - Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
1960 - Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
1964 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
1964 - Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
1967 - Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
1969 - Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
1970 - Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
1973 - Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
1975 - Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1976 - Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82
1976 - H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
1976 - Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
1982 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
1983 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1984 - Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1986 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
1988 - Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
1989 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 - Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
1990 - Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
1990 - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
1991 - George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
1991 - Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 - Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1991 - Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 - Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
1993 - Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1993 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1994 - Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
1994 - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
1994 - Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
1994 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
1994 - Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
1995 - Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
1996 - Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 - James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
1996 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
1997 - Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
1998 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1999 - Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
1999 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 - Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 - John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2003 - Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2004 - John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 - Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2007 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2008 - Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)