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741 - Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, dies at 63
1383 - Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies
1494 - Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1651 - Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1707 - Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly
1708 - Herman Witsius, [Wits], reformed theologist, dies at 72
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, composer, dies at 65
1725 - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlotti, composer, dies at 65
1751 - Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40
1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1763 - French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73
1764 - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67
1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1802 - Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62
1813 - August Harder, composer, dies at 38
1818 - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
1835 - Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73
1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1852 - Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86
1854 - J Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57
1859 - Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75
1869 - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64
1881 - Janis Cimze, composer, dies at 67
1882 - Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65
1883 - George Coulthard, cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies
1883 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1889 - Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59
1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
1919 - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30
1926 - Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies
1927 - Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1932 - Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio
1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
1942 - Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies
1942 - Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies
1943 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer, dies at 80
1948 - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies
1954 - Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54
1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1960 - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67
1965 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42
1965 - Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies
1966 - Hewlett Johnson, Red Deacon of Canterbury, dies
1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1970 - René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
1972 - Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies
1973 - Pablo Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer, dies at 96
1975 - Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86
1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 - Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber
1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
1981 - Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
1984 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer, dies at 66
1984 - Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75
1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
1986 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1986 - Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68
1986 - Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM NYC helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes
1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68
1989 - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
1991 - Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies
1992 - Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53
1992 - Red Barber, sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), dies at 84
1993 - Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
1993 - Fred C Shapiro, US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
1993 - Jiri Hajek, Czech lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1994 - Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
1994 - David Buchan, ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55
1994 - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1994 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
1994 - Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85
1994 - Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
1995 - Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
1995 - K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
1995 - Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73
1995 - Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79
1995 - Ralph Whitlock, writer, dies at 81
1995 - Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77
1996 - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat, dies at 39
1996 - John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47
1996 - Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
1997 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2007 - Ève Curie French writer (b. 1904)
2009 - Don Lane, American-born Australian television personality (b. 1933)
2009 - Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (b. 1926)