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956 - Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies
1216 - Innocent III, pope, dies at 54
1246 - Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64
1361 - John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61
1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1492 - Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded
1575 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63
1620 - Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies
1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
1644 - Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54
1651 - Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1722 - John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72
1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88
1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
1793 - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
1808 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
1812 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23
1815 - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle
1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1831 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
1837 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
1850 - William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
1855 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1866 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1880 - James Southerton, cricketer (appeared in England's 1st 2 Tests), dies
1881 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1892 - Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80
1901 - Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies
1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1905 - Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51
1910 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1930 - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1932 - Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
1936 - Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
1940 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
1941 - Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1945 - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
1946 - Ludwig Winder, writer, dies
1946 - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
1952 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1955 - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
1958 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45
1961 - O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies
1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1963 - J C Powys, writer, dies at 90
1969 - Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 78
1969 - John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57
1969 - John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25
1969 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73
1970 - Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1975 - Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
1976 - Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed
1976 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies
1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1979 - Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
1979 - Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
1981 - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
1981 - John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
1984 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)
1990 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1990 - Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
1991 - Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
1992 - Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies
1993 - John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (3073 runs in Tests), dies
1994 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
1994 - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82
1994 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82
1995 - Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies
1996 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
1996 - Mel Allen, sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83
1996 - Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
1997 - Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
2000 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2006 - Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2007 - Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
2007 - Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2008 - Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)