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796 - Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)
811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle
1342 - Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies
1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 - Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54
1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1533 - Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima
1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1630 - Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies
1677 - Michael Franck, composer, dies at 68
1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies
1684 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 - Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80
1719 - Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43
1723 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1728 - John Friend, physician/politician, dies
1770 - Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65
1801 - Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86
1826 - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82
1836 - Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45
1863 - Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70
1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1872 - Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
1881 - George Borrow, writer, dies
1910 - Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71
1915 - James Murray, philologist, dies
1916 - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52
1918 - Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies
1919 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1920 - Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83
1925 - William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65
1925 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1935 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1941 - Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies
1941 - Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1942 - Titus, [Anno S] Brandsma, philosopher (Dachau), dies
1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1944 - Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], cossack officer/shah of Persia, dies
1946 - Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies
1948 - Charles Mills, S Afr cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies
1952 - Maria Eva "Evita" Duarte Peron, Argentina's 1st lady, dies at 33
1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies
1954 - Hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26
1956 - Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46
1957 - Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered
1959 - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54
1960 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1960 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1964 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
1967 - Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 79
1968 - Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies
1969 - Raymond Walburn, actor (Spoilers, Dixie), dies after illness at 81
1970 - Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81
1970 - Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1973 - Mike Burke, Pres (NY Yankees)/dir (Madison Sq Garden), dies
1974 - Arthur K Watson, US businessman (IBM), dies at 55
1974 - Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart, actress (Dolle Lola), dies at 82
1975 - Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle Queen), dies at 98
1977 - Gena Branscombe, composer, dies at 95
1977 - Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer, dies at 75
1977 - Karac Plant, son of Robert Plant, dies of respratory failure at 6
1980 - Alan Hoskins, dies
1980 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1981 - Donald Lybbert, composer, dies at 58
1982 - Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show), dies at 54
1984 - Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78
1984 - George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies
1986 - Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, NY at 94
1987 - Joe Liggins, US composer (I've a Right to Cry), dies at 71
1988 - Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 - Brent Mydland, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots), dies at 38
1992 - Mary Wells, US soul singer (My Guy), dies at 49
1992 - Ron Webber, dies of cancer at 60
1993 - Daniel Fuchs, US, screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84
1993 - Matthew B Ridgway, US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98
1994 - Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
1994 - Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
1995 - Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies
1995 - George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88
1995 - Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement), dies at 70
1995 - Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist, dies at 76
1995 - Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1996 - Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93
1996 - Evelyn Levine, composer, dies at 94
2000 - John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 - Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2005 - Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2005 - Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 - Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
2007 - John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)