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44 BC - Julius Caesar (murdered) (b. 100 BC)
220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
493 - Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)
752 - Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22]
963 - Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1034 - Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
1145 - Pope Lucius II
1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57
1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1723 - Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27
1731 - Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75
1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
1842 - Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1880 - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51
1881 - Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42
1883 - Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
1905 - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60
1905 - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
1906 - Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
1918 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82
1918 - Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
1918 - Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
1929 - Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
1930 - Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1938 - Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies
1940 - Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70
1944 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86
1945 - Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41
1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
1954 - Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82
1957 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1962 - Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
1964 - Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75
1966 - Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63
1966 - Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 74
1969 - Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80
1970 - Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72
1971 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1973 - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1975 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
1975 - Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
1977 - Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
1977 - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
1981 - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
1983 - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80
1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses & dies on stage
1985 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
1987 - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82
1988 - Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for US, executed
1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
1990 - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70
1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1991 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84
1991 - Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
1992 - Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
1992 - Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
1992 - Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71
1993 - Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
1993 - Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
1993 - Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
1994 - Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
1995 - Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26
1996 - Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
1996 - Olga Rudge, violinist, dies at 100
1996 - Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89
1997 - Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72
1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2003 - Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2007 - Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
2008 - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
2008 - Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
2009 - Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)