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69 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
936 - King Rudolph of France
1208 - Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1684 - Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 - Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
1744 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
1755 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
1765 - Carlmann Kolb, composer, dies at 61
1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1788 - Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1812 - Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1816 - Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
1844 - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
1864 - Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1866 - M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
1876 - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1893 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 - Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
1909 - Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
1909 - Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1909 - Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1911 - Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49
1915 - Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 - Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered
1922 - John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
1924 - Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74
1926 - Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
1932 - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
1934 - Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1934 - Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1936 - Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
1942 - Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
1949 - Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
1949 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
1950 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
1953 - Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 - Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
1962 - Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62
1964 - Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 - Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
1966 - Betsy Mitchell, US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25
1967 - Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 - Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies
1968 - John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
1968 - Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1969 - Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
1971 - John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1972 - Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1974 - Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
1978 - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 - Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 - Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 - Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80
1983 - Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 - James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 - Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
1987 - Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
1987 - Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
1988 - Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
1989 - Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
1990 - Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
1993 - Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68
1993 - Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
1994 - Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
1994 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1995 - Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
1996 - Les Baxter, singer/orch leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
1996 - Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
1996 - Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78
1997 - Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82
1997 - Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
1998 - Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
1998 - Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
1998 - Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63
1999 - Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2008 - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)