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195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China
193 - Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61
1191 - Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies
1340 - Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies
1434 - Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies
1434 - Wladislaus II of Poland
1568 - Duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded
1568 - Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded
1571 - John Story, English Catholic
1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
1676 - Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1676 - Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
1713 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
1729 - Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65
1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
1763 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67
1769 - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1810 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47
1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal, dies at 53
1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 - Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)
1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
1846 - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80
1861 - John Q Marr, US Union captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse
1864 - Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1876 - Christo Botew, writer, dies
1909 - Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
1910 - Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91
1918 - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
1918 - Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32
1922 - Frank Walters, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 7 & 5), dies
1926 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
1935 - Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64
1941 - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
1942 - Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53
1942 - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50
1943 - Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1946 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues player, dies at 34
1948 - Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1951 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85
1952 - John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
1955 - F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies
1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
1960 - Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76
1960 - Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler. (b. 1896)
1964 - Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
1968 - Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1968 - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57
1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904)
1970 - G Ungaretti, writer, dies at 82
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78
1973 - Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
1973 - Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57
1973 - Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76
1975 - Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4-1972), dies at 25
1976 - Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89
1979 - Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91
1979 - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies
1980 - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1980 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1981 - Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
1981 - Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
1982 - Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies
1983 - Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82
1983 - Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
1985 - Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1987 - Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1987 - Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
1987 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921)
1990 - Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
1991 - David Ruffin, rock vocalist (Temptations), dies of drug overdose at 50
1992 - Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies
1992 - Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
1992 - Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave), dies at 69
1994 - Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70
1994 - Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1994 - Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80
1995 - Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80
1995 - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58
1996 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48
1996 - Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83
1996 - Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40
1996 - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
1996 - Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41
1997 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85), dies at 92
1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
2003 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2006 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
2007 - Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975)
2008 - Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)