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Results 1 - 104 of 104

1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1204 - Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
1422 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
1439 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74
1561 - Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1627 - Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56
1629 - Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle
1637 - Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54
1650 - Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies
1662 - Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66
1687 - Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73
1773 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1793 - Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1798 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71
1805 - Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
1805 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1810 - Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52
1831 - Nat Turner, & 19 associates, hanged at 31
1861 - Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50
1861 - John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies
1863 - Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1886 - Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1897 - Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
1905 - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1906 - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55
1916 - Karl von Storgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
1919 - Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77
1924 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76
1929 - Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies
1931 - A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
1937 - Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried
1939 - Nummy Deane, cricketer (628 runs in 17 Tests for South Africa), dies
1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1943 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1955 - Roy Minnett, cricketer (Australian all-rounder prior to WW I), dies
1961 - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies
1963 - George B Cressey, US geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66
1963 - Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier - anticommunist underground in Poland(b. 1918)
1965 - Bill Black, rocker, dies at 39
1965 - Marie McDonald, singer/actress (Promises Promises), dies of OD at 42
1966 - Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
1967 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94
1969 - Jack Kerouac, US writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1970 - John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
1971 - Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner (Oly-bronze-48), dies at 48
1971 - Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84
1973 - Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered
1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1977 - Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48
1977 - Ronnie Van Zant, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1977 - Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1978 - Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1983 - Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies
1984 - Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78
1984 - Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1987 - Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan govt official, dies at 88
1989 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
1992 - Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
1992 - Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), dies at 70
1992 - Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94
1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
1993 - Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
1993 - Irving Torgoff, US baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu pres of Burundi (1993), murder at 40
1993 - Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
1993 - Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
1994 - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
1994 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79
1995 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
1995 - Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79
1995 - Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28
1996 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
1996 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76
1996 - George Houston, land economist, dies at 74
1996 - Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies
1996 - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
1996 - Wang Li, politician, dies at 78
1997 - Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
1998 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)