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490 - Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1321 - Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies
1590 - Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68
1618 - Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66
1790 - Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66
1802 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95
1822 - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61
1829 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies
1846 - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90
1853 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68
1853 - William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29
1856 - Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68
1873 - Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
1873 - Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies
1873 - Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78
1876 - Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1882 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64
1883 - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68
1885 - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
1885 - James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda
1892 - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies
1901 - Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1919 - Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1920 - Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74
1922 - George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79
1927 - Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
1931 - Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38
1932 - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies
1933 - Paul, [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies
1934 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55
1946 - John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83
1947 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 - Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92
1951 - De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered
1951 - Robert G Aitken, US astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 - Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1962 - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73
1965 - Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris
1966 - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83
1968 - Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies
1971 - Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
1973 - Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83
1974 - Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82
1975 - John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67
1981 - William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
1983 - Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81
1985 - John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82
1986 - Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57
1987 - Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
1990 - William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer
1991 - Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60
1991 - Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies
1991 - Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies
1991 - Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies
1992 - Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies
1992 - Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies
1993 - George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies
1993 - Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65
1994 - Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84
1994 - Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87
1994 - Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44
1996 - James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
1996 - Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50
1996 - Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
2008 - Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)