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632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 - Honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies
642 - Johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies
642 - Pope John IV
1093 - Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62
1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician
1320 - Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies
1343 - Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies
1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist
1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
1576 - Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies
1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
1646 - Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies
1654 - Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66
1654 - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident
1672 - Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle
1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
1685 - Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59
1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
1692 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60
1694 - Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies
1730 - Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies
1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
1791 - A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68
1794 - James Lyon, composer, dies at 59
1797 - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84
1817 - Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66
1820 - Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36
1829 - Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73
1837 - Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62
1844 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies
1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1858 - Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61
1860 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73
1864 - Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87
1865 - William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53
1870 - Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
1915 - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
1922 - Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33
1923 - A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
1924 - Anatole France, writer, dies at 80
1924 - Monroe A Althouse, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
1936 - B L T Bosanquet, cricketer (1st great googly bowler, England), dies
1938 - Hugh Massie, cricketer (9 Tests for Australia 1881-85, capt), dies
1940 - Tom Mix, US actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60
1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
1945 - Jesse James Payne, lynched in Madison County Florida
1946 - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China), dies
1947 - Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42
1948 - Alfred Kerr, writer, dies at 80
1948 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).
1951 - Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62
1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
1958 - Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives), dies at 30
1958 - Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter, dies at 59
1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1959 - Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63
1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1964 - J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
1966 - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless), dies at 72
1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
1969 - Serge Poliakoff, Russ/French painter, dies
1969 - Sonja Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), dies at 57
1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
1971 - Dean G Acheson, US foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78
1971 - Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36
1974 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74
1977 - Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81
1979 - Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek), dies at 82
1982 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73
1983 - Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61
1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
1985 - Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75
1985 - Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32
1987 - Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100
1987 - Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77
1988 - Ken Murray, actor (Bill & Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85
1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
1989 - Franco, [Francis Luambo/"Makiadi"], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51
1989 - Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky & his Friends), dies at 79
1990 - Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies
1990 - Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
1991 - Aline MacMahon, US actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92
1991 - Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89
1991 - Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75
1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
1992 - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], actor/writer (Farce Major), dies
1992 - John Hancock, actor (Catch the Heat), dies of a heart attack at 51
1992 - Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident
1993 - Leon Ames, actor (Father of the Bride), dies at 91 of stroke
1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
1995 - Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78
1995 - Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55
1996 - David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86
1996 - Jack Robertson, cricketer (Midsex & Eng open bat 11 Tests), dies at 79
1996 - Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer, dies at 79
1996 - Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer, dies at 75
1996 - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84
1997 - John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53
1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
1999 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (b. 1919)
2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
2007 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
2008 - Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)