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474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies
619 - Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
699 - Saint Werburgh
865 - Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies
1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark
1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
1399 - John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile & Leon, dies at 58
1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
1451 - Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies
1468 - Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies
1536 - Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies
1558 - Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies
1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1602 - Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62
1619 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
1679 - Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53
1697 - Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island
1715 - Gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70
1737 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
1748 - Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49
1803 - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79
1814 - Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75
1832 - George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77
1846 - Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79
1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87
1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1874 - Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)
1875 - Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66
1876 - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83
1882 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55
1889 - Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40
1890 - Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72
1900 - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33
1902 - Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies
1903 - Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59
1909 - Johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86
1921 - Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56
1922 - Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67
1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th pres (1913-21), dies at his home in Wash at 67
1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch World champion bicyclist/speed skating, dies at 51
1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
1931 - Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72
1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
1936 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
1937 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (b. 1887)
1943 - Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns
1945 - Jose Rolon, composer, dies at 61
1945 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies
1947 - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74
1947 - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-adm (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60
1950 - Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80
1956 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
1956 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
1958 - Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
1958 - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 81
1959 - Big Bopper, rocker, dies in plane crash at 28
1959 - Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22
1959 - Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), killed in plane crash at 17
1960 - Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar, dies at 80
1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
1961 - Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54
1961 - Viscount Dunrossil, Gov-Gen of Australia (1959-61), dies at 67
1962 - Werner Bock, writer, dies
1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
1966 - June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65
1967 - Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide
1967 - Winifred Kingston, silent screen actress (David Garrick), dies at 72
1969 - Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered
1971 - Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at 72
1972 - John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79
1973 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer, dies at 67
1975 - John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55
1975 - Robert Evett, composer, dies at 52
1975 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1976 - Neville Lindsay, cricketer (S Afr batsman in Test v Aust 1921), dies
1977 - Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76
1979 - Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies
1984 - Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies
1984 - Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England
1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1989 - John Cassavetes, actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59
1991 - Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
1991 - Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1993 - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69
1995 - John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72
1995 - Turner Fodrell, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
1996 - Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice-Honeymooners), dies at 69
1996 - Broderick Vernon Chinnery Photographer-Haldane, dies at 83
1996 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector, dies at 84
1996 - Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property Developer, dies at 81
1996 - Tibor Reich, textile designer, dies at 79
1996 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist, dies at 61
1997 - Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator, dies at 84
1997 - Bohumil Hrabal, writer, dies at 82
1997 - William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert, dies at 79
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38
2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)
2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)
2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
2006 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
2007 - Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
2007 - George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993-2001) (b. 1928)
2007 - Pedro Knight, Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz (b. 1921)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
2009 - Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (b. 1930)