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355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
1134 - Alfonso I de Strijdvaardige, king of Aragon (1104-34), dies
1151 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38
1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
1625 - Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension executive of Lead, dies at 64
1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia
1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
1655 - Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
1708 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
1719 - John Harris, English writer
1721 - Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies
1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
1775 - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer, dies at 48
1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies
1799 - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68
1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
1809 - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author, dies at 46
1809 - Karoline Schelling, writer, dies
1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
1819 - Jean-Louis Duport, composer, dies at 69
1820 - Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67
1838 - Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43
1845 - Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
1871 - Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
1871 - Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies
1872 - Antoni Stolpe, composer, dies at 21
1881 - Sidney Clopton Lanier, composer, dies at 39
1891 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
1892 - John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies
1902 - Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70
1907 - R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies
1909 - Eugene Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
1914 - Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73
1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
1925 - John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 52
1925 - René [Raphael] Viviani, French premier (1914-15), dies
1933 - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies
1939 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1940 - Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies
1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
1944 - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer, dies at 70
1946 - Paul Zech, writer, dies at 65
1948 - Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman, dies at 80
1949 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
1951 - Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights, Sudan), dies at 31
1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
1955 - Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1956 - Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist, dies at 84
1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1960 - Wilhelm Pieck, president of German DR (1949-60), dies at 84
1961 - Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76
1962 - Karen Blixen-Finecke, baroness/writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77
1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)
1965 - Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
1966 - Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
1969 - Everett McKinley Dirksen, (Sen-R), dies at 73
1971 - Spring Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
1972 - Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian, dies at 81
1973 - Hans Lorbeer, writer, dies at 72
1977 - Gustave Reese, composer, dies at 77
1978 - Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug OD at 31
1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1983 - Hans Munch, composer, dies at 90
1983 - Henry Promnitz, cricketer (5-58 on debut for S Africa 1927-28), dies
1984 - Don Tallon, cricketer (great Queensland & Australian keeper), dies
1984 - Joe Cronin, shortstop/American League Pres, dies at 77
1986 - Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
1986 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer, dies at 83
1990 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies
1991 - Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
1991 - Ben Piazza, actor (Consenting Adults), dies of cancer at 58
1991 - John Crosby, US columnist/detective writer dies at 79
1991 - John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric, dies
1992 - Henry Ephron, US screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
1992 - Indra Kamadjojo, [Broekveld], Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies
1992 - Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79
1994 - Dennis Morgan, [Stanley], US actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 83
1994 - Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79
1994 - Godfrey Quigley, actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita), dies at 71
1994 - James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69
1994 - Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79
1995 - Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51
1996 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer, dies at 64
1997 - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
1997 - Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, dies of cancer at 65
1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66
1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
2001 - Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
2002 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. ca. 1924)
2008 - Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer (b. 1964)
2008 - Don Haskins, American College Basketball coach (b. 1930)
2008 - Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
2008 - Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)