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Results 1 - 85 of 85

81 - Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42
867 - Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies
1321 - Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies
1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1596 - Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java)
1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
1632 - Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)
1650 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72
1657 - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1803 - John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies
1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 - Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1859 - Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer, dies at 71
1872 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
1881 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, US Union general, dies at 57
1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1906 - Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66
1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1913 - Alfred Gaul, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1921 - Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59
1921 - Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], adm (WW I), dies at 67
1924 - Pekka Hannikainen, composer, dies at 69
1928 - Italo Svevo, [Ettore Schmitz], Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66
1932 - Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77
1932 - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
1938 - Samuel Alexander, Engl philosopher (Space, time & deity), dies at 79
1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1948 - Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1950 - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73
1959 - Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, dies of heart attack at 56
1960 - Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies at 75
1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1967 - Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38
1969 - Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66
1971 - Lin Piao, Chinese party leader, dies in air crash at 63 [or Sept 13]
1971 - Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters), dies at 72
1971 - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1973 - Betty Field, actress (Kings Row), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60
1976 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 - Arthur Fagg, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1936-39/umpire), dies
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, symphonic conductors, dies in England, at 95
1981 - William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
1982 - Grace, Princess of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash
1982 - Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80
1985 - Dane Rudhyar, composer, dies at 90
1987 - Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86
1989 - Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82
1991 - Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies
1991 - Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
1991 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1992 - Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies at 89
1994 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54
1994 - Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58
1994 - Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies
1995 - Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94
1995 - Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76
1995 - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83
1996 - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68
1996 - Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies
1996 - Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87
1996 - Silas Roy Crain, singer/songwriter, dies at 85
1996 - Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25
1998 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 - Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)