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312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)
900 - Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies
1138 - Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies
1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies
1637 - Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of govt), dies at 72
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 - Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 - Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
1779 - Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 - Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1852 - Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57
1854 - James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1875 - William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56
1877 - Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1897 - Hercules Robinson, S Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72
1899 - C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1905 - Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies
1914 - Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1919 - Ted Wainwright, cricketer (Yorks stalwart, 5 Tests 1893-98), dies
1922 - Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies
1927 - Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1936 - E G Winkler, writer, dies
1939 - Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46
1940 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 - Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game
1959 - Abe Waddington, cricketer (Yorks left-arm quick, Test avg 119), dies
1959 - Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1962 - Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48
1963 - Mart Saar, composer, dies at 81
1964 - Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
1965 - Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1968 - Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85
1969 - Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
1970 - Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies
1970 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99
1971 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1980 - Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63
1986 - Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
1986 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
1987 - Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74
1991 - Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies
1991 - G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69
1991 - John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
1991 - Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
1991 - Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78
1992 - Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
1993 - Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80
1994 - Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
1995 - Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
1995 - Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96
1996 - Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87
1996 - William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94
1997 - Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
1997 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 - Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2005 - Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2007 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)