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1168 - Paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies
1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev
1384 - Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne
1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
1493 - Philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies
1586 - Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24
1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
1613 - Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies
1624 - Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66
1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
1639 - John Meursius, [van Meurs], historian, dies at 60
1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
1647 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer, dies at 70
1648 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, dies at 61
1679 - Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51
1703 - Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52
1706 - Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79
1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
1731 - Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67
1773 - Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63
1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1806 - Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies
1810 - Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28
1823 - Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57
1839 - Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74
1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
1863 - Benjamin Hardin Helm, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies at 33
1863 - Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78
1865 - William H Revere Jr, US Union brig-general, dies
1873 - Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies
1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
1886 - John Liptrot Hatton, composer, dies at 77
1896 - Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76
1897 - Karel Bendl, composer, dies at 59
1898 - Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78
1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1908 - Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer, dies at 64
1917 - Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17
1927 - George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62
1931 - Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies
1932 - Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63
1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
1933 - Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies
1939 - Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)
1944 - John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem
1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
1945 - Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian president (b. 1869)
1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
1947 - Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56
1957 - Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91
1959 - Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1960 - Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67
1960 - Michel Brusselmans, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Henri Mulet, composer, dies at 88
1968 - Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57
1971 - James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59
1971 - William F Albright, US archaeologist, dies at 80
1973 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist, dies
1973 - Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1973 - Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
1974 - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, entertainer, dies at 61
1974 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88
1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78
1976 - Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83
1979 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies at 83
1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
1984 - Steve Goodman, folk singer/guitarist, dies at 36
1987 - Michael Stewart
1988 - Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
1990 - Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
1992 - K W Stackpole, cricketer (good Victorian batsman), dies
1993 - Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
1993 - Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
1994 - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist, dies at 77
1994 - Jule Styne, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88
1995 - Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82
1996 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician, dies at 42
1996 - Paul Draper, dancer, dies at 87
1996 - Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83
1996 - Paul Weston, bandleader, dies at 84
1997 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer, dies at 59
1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
1999 - Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
2006 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
2007 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)