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589 - Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
965 - Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
986 - King Lothair of France (b. 941)
1131 - Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1383 - Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
1510 - Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59
1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer
1535 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)
1619 - Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
1633 - George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1693 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1771 - Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58
1773 - Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62
1788 - Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1797 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
1804 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
1817 - Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
1826 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1859 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
1865 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1869 - Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
1870 - Francisco S Lopez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1892 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1896 - Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1899 - Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
1906 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
1911 - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1914 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1918 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64
1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
1921 - Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1924 - Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
1926 - Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
1928 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62
1928 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1932 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
1933 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1938 - G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
1938 - Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
1940 - Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1942 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
1944 - ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1947 - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
1953 - Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1958 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
1962 - Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
1963 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1963 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 - Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54
1965 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1968 - G v d Vring, writer, dies
1968 - Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
1970 - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1972 - Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1976 - Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1979 - Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1979 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
1980 - John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87
1980 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980 - Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1985 - Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
1988 - Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
1988 - Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
1989 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
1989 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72
1990 - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
1991 - Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1991 - Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
1991 - Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74
1993 - Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
1993 - Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
1994 - Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
1994 - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75
1994 - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57
1994 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician, dies at 51
1994 - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1995 - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
1996 - Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85
2000 - Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2005 - Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2006 - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006 - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
2006 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)