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1202 - Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
1516 - Vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60
1558 - Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
1569 - Lodewijk Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies
1569 - Louis Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle
1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman
1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies
1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1716 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
1756 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
1773 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1817 - Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
1837 - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
1839 - Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
1881 - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
1890 - Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
1903 - Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88
1906 - Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
1911 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1915 - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
1918 - Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
1918 - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1930 - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77
1934 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
1938 - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1941 - A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
1941 - J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1945 - Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
1946 - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
1946 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
1946 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1951 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate, dies
1951 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67
1955 - Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies
1955 - Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48
1957 - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
1965 - George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1967 - Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer, dies
1969 - Felix Locher, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 86
1970 - Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45
1971 - Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82
1971 - Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1973 - Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
1974 - Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68
1974 - Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52
1975 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
1975 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1975 - Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces), dies at 83
1975 - Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
1976 - Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77
1977 - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies
1977 - Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison
1978 - David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
1978 - Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), dies
1980 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer, dies at 61
1982 - Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64
1982 - Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58
1983 - Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 86
1984 - Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat), dies
1986 - Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
1987 - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77
1987 - Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
1988 - Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92
1988 - John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
1990 - Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1991 - Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies
1992 - Clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84
1992 - Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
1993 - Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
1994 - Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
1994 - Edward James "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player
1994 - Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at 59
1995 - Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 - John Silverlight, journalist, dies at 75
1995 - Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
1995 - Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
1995 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
1995 - P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
1996 - Brian Hulls, television news cameraman, dies at 48
1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54
1996 - Lucio Fulci, filem director, dies at 68
1996 - Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner, dies at 85
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2001 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
2009 - Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975)
2009 - Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (b. 1923)