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193 - Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated
593 - Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67
1072 - Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1134 - Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Côteaux/saint, dies
1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
1285 - Martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies
1285 - Pope Martin IV
1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
1566 - Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79
1673 - Adam Pijnacker, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51
1677 - Wenzel Hollar, Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69
1687 - Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90
1701 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75
1712 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75
1758 - Jonathan Edwards, US theologist (Great Awakening), dies at 54
1799 - Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55
1801 - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66
1818 - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62
1840 - Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
1847 - Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67
1849 - Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44
1850 - Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1856 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76
1860 - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73
1863 - James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52
1865 - Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26
1866 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70
1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
1877 - Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77
1880 - Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
1881 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42 [OS=Mar 16]
1885 - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53
1887 - Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75
1889 - Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler
1891 - Dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies
1896 - E Rundle Charles, writer, dies
1907 - Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65
1908 - John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68
1910 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies
1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
1914 - Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
1927 - Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
1928 - Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63
1929 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1941 - Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59
1941 - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
1942 - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67
1942 - Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
1943 - Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
1944 - Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis
1944 - Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75
1946 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
1947 - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57
1947 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
1949 - Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59
1950 - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67
1953 - James Francis Thorpe, decathelete (Olympic-gold-12), dies at 64
1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
1954 - Francis B Young, Brit physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69
1956 - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, vocalist, dies of a heart attack
1958 - Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53
1958 - William Christopher Handy, US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84
1959 - James Neblett, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1935), dies
1960 - Ian Keith, US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61
1962 - Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
1963 - Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52
1965 - VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67
1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
1965 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1969 - Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78
1969 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1971 - Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78
1973 - Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies
1974 - Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68
1974 - Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1975 - Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77
1976 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
1979 - Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
1980 - Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies
1980 - Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66
1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1983 - Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71
1983 - Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77
1984 - Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1984 - Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1985 - Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97
1985 - Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53
1986 - Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39
1986 - Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
1987 - Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82
1987 - Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56
1990 - Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
1991 - Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85
1992 - Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72
1993 - Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 - Albert Goldman, US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66
1994 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
1994 - John Logan Gorlay, journalist, dies at 74
1995 - Hugh Edward R O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32
1995 - Jack Regan, broadcaster, dies at 53
1995 - Vivienne Byerley, publicist, dies at 88
1996 - Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86
1996 - Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier, dies at 95
1996 - David Band, banker, dies at 53
1996 - Edith Fowke, folklorist, dies at 82
1996 - Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75
1996 - James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop, dies at 89
1996 - Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78
1996 - Shin Kanemaru, VP of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81
1996 - Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87
1999 - Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2003 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
2006 - Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
2006 - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)