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642 - Oswald, English missionary/saint, dies in battle
1261 - Hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies
1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1485 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer
1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
1572 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
1573 - Jan "Hans" Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54
1609 - Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39
1618 - Filips Willem, Prince of Orange, dies at 63
1621 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1626 - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
1638 - Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56
1638 - Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies
1665 - Lodewijk van Nassau, Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies
1737 - Hercule Brehy, composer, dies at 63
1742 - Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist, dies at 53
1746 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1781 - Richard Stockton, US attorney (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 50
1784 - Phillis Wheatly, poetess, dies
1786 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
1796 - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56
1818 - Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56
1844 - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
1876 - Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53
1903 - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88
1905 - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
1912 - Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
1913 - Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)
1916 - Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
1922 - Vicente Lleo, composer, dies at 51
1925 - Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies
1929 - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
1929 - John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65
1931 - Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness
1932 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16), dies at 73
1935 - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1936 - Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
1936 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
1940 - Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81
1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1949 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65
1953 - Jim Thorpe, decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64
1956 - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
1959 - Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70
1960 - F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74
1960 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68
1961 - Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64
1962 - Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1963 - Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58
1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1964 - Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78
1965 - Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74
1966 - Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
1966 - Elliot McKay See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash
1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1968 - Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41
1968 - Frankie Lymon, singer, dies at 25
1968 - Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66
1972 - Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies
1973 - Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78
1973 - Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79
1974 - Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89
1975 - Istvan Kardos, composer, dies at 83
1977 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
1978 - Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73
1978 - Philip Ahn, LA Calif, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66
1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
1979 - Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52
1979 - Mr Ed, talking horse, dies
1979 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
1980 - Ian Alexander Ross Peebles, cricketer (45 wkts for England), dies
1984 - Leslie Walcott, cricketer (Test for WI v England 1930), dies
1985 - Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC
1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
1985 - Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)
1986 - Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
1986 - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
1987 - Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
1987 - Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67
1988 - Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99
1989 - Hermann Burger, writer, dies at 46
1990 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
1990 - Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
1990 - Tuppy Owen-Smith, S Afr cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies
1991 - Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies
1991 - Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
1992 - Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49
1992 - Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies
1992 - La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53
1993 - Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies
1993 - Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70
1993 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
1993 - Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94
1993 - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82
1994 - Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
1994 - Buster Holmes, chef/restaurateur, dies at 88
1994 - Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player, dies at 77
1994 - George Osborne Sayles, historian, dies at 92
1994 - Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
1994 - Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
1995 - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69
1995 - Keith Rigg, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37), dies
1995 - Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92
1996 - Daniel Chipenda, Angolan politician and field commander, dies at 64
1998 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
1998 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
1999 - Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
2002 - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
2002 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
2003 - Chris Brasher, English athlete (b. 1928)
2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
2003 - Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
2003 - Rudolf Kingslake, Lens designer, and Engineer (b. 1903)
2004 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
2004 - Carmen Laforet, famed Spanish novelist
2004 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
2006 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2007 - Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908)
2007 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b.1917)
2007 - Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
2008 - Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)
2009 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918)