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546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
1000 - Olaf I of Norway
1087 - William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1438 - Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies
1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 - Francois II of Bretagne, dies
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 - James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
1573 - Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies
1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1683 - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
1713 - Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies
1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1770 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73
1770 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62
1803 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32
1806 - William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
1810 - Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
1815 - John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77
1817 - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
1832 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39
1841 - Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
1866 - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65
1876 - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
1878 - Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18
1888 - John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1901 - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
1902 - Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, gov of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1913 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1926 - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident
1926 - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident
1931 - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
1939 - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9]
1941 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85
1946 - Mynona, writer, dies at 74
1948 - James Baskett, dies
1951 - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56
1951 - Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74
1952 - Joseph Allen Sr, dies
1954 - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49
1957 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84
1958 - Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies
1959 - Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84
1959 - O'Neil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash
1960 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1962 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
1963 - Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68
1963 - Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies
1964 - Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90
1966 - Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76
1966 - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
1966 - Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61
1967 - Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69
1969 - Cecil Dixon, cricketer (S Afr 1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies
1969 - Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65
1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1971 - Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76
1973 - Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
1974 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55
1975 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1975 - John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61
1975 - Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1977 - John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73
1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86)
1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1979 - Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73
1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 - Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs & 0-13), dies
1982 - Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US, detective writer, dies at 76
1984 - Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77
1984 - Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1987 - Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
1989 - Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose
1990 - Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
1991 - Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies
1991 - John Lawrence, doctor, dies
1991 - Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies
1991 - Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31
1993 - David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies
1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
1994 - Patrick O'Neal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
1994 - Roy Castle, actor (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung Cancer
1995 - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1996 - Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67
1996 - Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82
1996 - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66
1996 - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84
1997 - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48
1997 - Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70
1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 - Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
1999 - Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
2008 - Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)