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899 - Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies
1132 - Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered
1235 - Andres II Arpad, King of Hungary (1205-35), dies
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged
1576 - Frederick II the Vrome, ruler of Palts, dies
1607 - Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52
1608 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1640 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63
1658 - Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies
1661 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1678 - John Jenkins, composer, dies
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1693 - Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71
1706 - Andreas Werkmeister, composer, dies at 60
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1733 - Antonio Veracini, composer, dies at 74
1749 - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1756 - Johann Theodor Romhild, composer, dies at 72
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1823 - Josef Preindl, composer, dies at 67
1848 - Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies
1858 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer, dies at 39
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1867 - John Fawcett, composer, dies at 77
1868 - B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
1874 - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49
1881 - Billy Clanton, brother of Ike, dies
1890 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1903 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73
1903 - Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64
1909 - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean
1929 - Arno Holz, writer, dies at 66
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1935 - Akos Buttykai, composer, dies at 64
1936 - Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1954 - Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies
1955 - Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74
1956 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60
1957 - N Kazantzakis, writer, dies
1961 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies
1961 - Milan Stojadinovic, premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73
1962 - Hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67
1962 - Louise Beavers, actress (Beulah-Beulah), dies at 64
1964 - Agnes Miegel, writer, dies
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1968 - Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52
1971 - Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian/US helicopter builder, dies at 83
1976 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57
1978 - George Grant, cricketer (WI Test captain through early 1930's), dies
1979 - Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies
1979 - Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
1980 - Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74
1982 - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies
1984 - John Woods Duke, composer, dies at 85
1984 - Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37
1984 - Sue Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Andrew Roberts, cricketer (7 Tests for New Zealand 1976), dies
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1990 - William Paley, CEO (CBS), dies of a heart attack at 89
1991 - Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
1992 - Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies
1992 - Laurel Cronin, actor (Beethoven, Housesitter), dies of cancer at 53
1993 - Absolutely Nobody, [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
1993 - H Hardenberg, writer, dies
1994 - Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
1994 - Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies
1995 - Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor, dies at 79
1995 - Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
1996 - Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80
1996 - Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist, dies at 93
1996 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist, dies at 95
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2008 - Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
2008 - Delmar Watson, American child actor (b. 1926)