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19 - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33
413 - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
680 - Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded
680 - 10 Muharram 61 AH - Husayn ibn Ali (AS) , Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1616 - Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60
1651 - Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77
1659 - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56
1676 - Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43
1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
1727 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61
1745 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52
1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1789 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34
1791 - C F D Schubart, writer, dies
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1797 - Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61
1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49
1836 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer, dies at 61
1843 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67
1858 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73
1864 - David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
1867 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60
1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer, dies at 58
1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1886 - David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies
1889 - Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1910 - Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1914 - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73
1914 - Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies
1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1931 - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84
1935 - Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72
1938 - Martin Bladen, cricketer (the 7th Lord Hawke), dies
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1942 - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
1959 - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies
1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
1964 - Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
1964 - Frantisek Picha, composer, dies at 71
1964 - Konrad Bayer, writer, dies
1964 - Russ Case, orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52
1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1965 - Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63
1967 - Ervin Major, composer, dies at 66
1968 - Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71
1970 - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60
1970 - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1973 - Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71
1974 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73
1975 - Lillian Walker, dies at 88
1976 - Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68
1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
1978 - Gesina Van de Molen, Dutch lawyer, dies at 86
1978 - Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86
1978 - Ralph H Metcalfe, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68
1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1979 - Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93
1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1980 - Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies
1980 - Walter Keeton, cricketer (opening bat in 2 Test for Eng 1934-39), dies
1980 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49
1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 - Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80
1985 - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
1985 - Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 65
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 - Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67
1990 - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56
1990 - Michael A Salcido, dies at 39
1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 - Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34
1992 - James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78
1993 - Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46
1993 - Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
1994 - Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
1994 - Chaim Raphael, writer, dies at 86
1994 - Danny Gatton, US guitarist, commits suicide at 48
1994 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer, dies at 64
1994 - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74
1995 - Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100
1995 - Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
1995 - John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
1995 - Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
1995 - Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
1996 - Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54
1996 - Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner, dies at 83
1996 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72
1996 - Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65
1997 - Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52
1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)
2008 - Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)