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545 - Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint, dies at about 70
1107 - Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle
1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
1594 - Michel Renichon, priest, executed
1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
1661 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67
1679 - Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
1688 - Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik, dies at 66
1732 - Pieter Vuyst, Dutch gov-gen of Ceylon, executed
1764 - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69
1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
1804 - Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35
1809 - John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1844 - Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme, dies
1849 - Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73
1858 - Julius Reubke, composer, dies at 24
1861 - Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies
1864 - James P McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in battle
1864 - Peter A Porter, US Union colonel (8th NY), dies in battle
1865 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1872 - Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53
1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1877 - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
1881 - Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
1888 - Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60
1890 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76
1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
1898 - Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77
1898 - Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74
1899 - Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73
1904 - Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard & Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide
1913 - Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer, dies at 79
1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1933 - William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
1943 - Folkert E Posthuma, Min of Agriculture, dies
1946 - Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60
1949 - Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79
1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
1959 - Ole Windingstad, composer, dies at 73
1963 - John XXIII, [Angelo G Roncalli], Pope (1958-63), dies at 81
1963 - Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57
1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1966 - Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65
1967 - Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies
1967 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76
1967 - Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67
1970 - Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Fries boer/writer, dies at 70
1970 - H G Hjalmar Schacht, pres Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies
1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
1973 - Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
1975 - Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 69
1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
1979 - Arno Schmidt, writer, dies at 65
1981 - Carleton Coon, anthropology prof (What in the World), dies at 76
1981 - Eric Dalton, cricketer (698 runs for South Africa at 31 72), dies
1983 - Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60
1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
1986 - Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81
1986 - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89
1986 - Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
1987 - Andres Segovia, guitarist, dies
1987 - Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54
1989 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah, dies at 89
1989 - John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
1990 - Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ), dies at 77
1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
1991 - Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62
1991 - Eva La Gailliene, Brit/US actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92
1991 - Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
1991 - Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
1991 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1992 - Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83
1992 - Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84
1992 - William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70
1993 - Bob Fitzsimmons, NY radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53
1994 - Hub Matthijsen, violinist/bandmaster, dies at 52
1994 - Jack Cowie, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 45 wkts at 21 53), dies
1994 - Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies
1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89
1995 - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69
1995 - Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93
1995 - Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
1995 - Frank Waters, writer, dies at 92
1995 - Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer, dies at 52
1996 - Len Creed, bookmaker, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Glenville, actor/director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82
1996 - Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81
1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2004 - Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
2009 - David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
2009 - Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." (b. 1928)
2009 - Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)