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959 - Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
1068 - Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1580 - Gaspar Schetz, South Neth, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67
1620 - Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1623 - William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72
1641 - Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32
1677 - Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1754 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70
1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
1801 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1829 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1848 - Robert Blum, German MP (Liberal), executed
1862 - John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
1874 - Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1897 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
1906 - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
1911 - Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1925 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71
1927 - Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Nicolaas Theunissen, S Afr cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
1932 - Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1939 - Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1942 - Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday
1943 - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1948 - Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1951 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1952 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
1953 - Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
1955 - Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1959 - Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78
1968 - Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37
1968 - Wally Grout, cricketer (successful Australian WK before Marsh), dies
1970 - William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
1971 - Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90
1974 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
1976 - Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1977 - Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday
1978 - Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1978 - Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 - Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 - Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 - Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
1985 - Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1988 - Billy Curtis, 4'2" actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79
1988 - John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1991 - Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 - William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92
1993 - Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72
1993 - Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
1994 - Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
1994 - Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
1995 - Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88
1995 - Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81
1996 - Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91
1996 - Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92
1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2002 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 - Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)