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290 - [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated
336 - Marcus, bishop of Rome (336), dies
336 - Pope Mark
929 - Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies
1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1488 - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52
1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1571 - Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle
1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet
1612 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70
1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1639 - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68
1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1660 - Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50
1681 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1766 - Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
1777 - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 - Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1792 - George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1800 - Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 - August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68
1849 - Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Balt at 40
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
1864 - Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
1887 - George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
1890 - John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1915 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
1918 - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1924 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1925 - Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1939 - Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1951 - Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77
1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1959 - PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1962 - Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66
1963 - Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69
1964 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
1966 - Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
1966 - Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
1967 - Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1969 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1976 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
1990 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1990 - Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 - Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 - Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies
1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 - Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88
1993 - Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
1993 - Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63
1994 - James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 - Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1995 - Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
1996 - Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2001 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2008 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)