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973 - Ekkehard I, monk of St Gallen (Vita Waltharii manu fortis), dies
1163 - Ladislaus I Arpad, king of Hungary (1162-63), dies
1236 - Sava [Rastko], son of Serbia's king/saint, dies at 64
1301 - Andreas III Arpad, king of Hungary (1290-1301), dies at 50
1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
1623 - Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70
1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
1648 - Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63
1676 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73
1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
1742 - Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 85
1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1766 - Frederik V, king of Denmark/Norway (1746-66), dies at 42
1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1786 - Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
1802 - Marie Allard, French ballerina, dies at 59
1817 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer, dies at 87
1819 - Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
1822 - Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72
1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
1830 - Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker, dies at 59
1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
1847 - Gov Bent, 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico
1850 - Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner, dies at 93
1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1868 - Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Ursatz), dies at 66
1887 - Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83
1887 - Peter "Peerke" Donders, missionary (Father of Melaatsen), dies at 77
1888 - Stephen Heller, composer, dies at 74
1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
1890 - Francesco D'Arcais, composer, dies at 59
1892 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
1898 - Lewis Carroll, writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65
1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78
1901 - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian, dies at 57
1901 - Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76
1902 - Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 65
1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
1907 - Karl von Perfall, composer, dies at 82
1907 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1908 - Holger Drachmann, writer, dies
1909 - Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60
1912 - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant & Epigones), dies at 71
1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
1916 - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73
1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1923 - Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
1924 - Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72
1925 - Willem Devout, self employed (V & Dreesmann), dies
1929 - Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74
1931 - William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
1943 - Adolf Sandberger, composer, dies at 78
1944 - Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
1945 - Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43
1948 - Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66
1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1956 - Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57
1961 - Ernest Thesiger, actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
1961 - Henry Geehl, composer, dies at 79
1963 - Gustav Regler, writer, dies at 64
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies
1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1967 - Renato Lunelli, composer, dies at 71
1968 - Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
1970 - John J "Johnny" Murphy, US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 61
1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
1971 - Ethel Glenn Hier, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Frederik IX, [Christiaan FFMKW], king of Denmark (1947-72), dies at 72
1974 - Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament chairman, dies at 62
1976 - Margaret Leighton, actress (Best Man, Go-Between), dies at 53
1977 - Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53
1977 - Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
1977 - Peter Finch, actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60
1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1978 - Blossom Rock, actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81
1978 - Robert Heger, composer, dies at 91
1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
1979 - Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)
1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino Culotta) (b. 1907)
1984 - Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, Dutch sexuologist (NVSH), dies at 55
1984 - Paul Ben Haim, composer, dies at 86
1984 - Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 81
1985 - Jetta Goudal, French actress (White Gold), dies at 86
1986 - Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64
1986 - Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter, dies at 53
1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
1987 - Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86
1988 - Georgy M Malenkov, PM of USSR (1953-55), dies at 86
1990 - David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies
1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
1991 - Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
1991 - Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1992 - Hari Rhodes, actor (Earth II, Detroit 9000), dies at 59
1993 - Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid for Dutch Queen, dies at 98
1993 - Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (Intl Court of Justice), dies
1994 - Esther Ralston, US actress (Tin Pan Alley, SF Docks), dies at 91
1994 - Federica Montseny, anarchist/Sp minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
1995 - Alexander Gibson, Brit conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68
1995 - Alexander Gibson, conductor, dies at 69
1995 - Mark Finch, film festival organizer, dies at 33
1995 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84
1996 - Eric Briault, educationalist, dies at 84
1996 - Pamelo Mounk'a, musician, dies at 50
1997 - King Hu, film director, dies at 64
1997 - Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
2003 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir) (b. 1978)
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
2006 - Shelly Winters, actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Aventure)
2006 - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
2007 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
2008 - Judah Folkman, Surgeon that developed Angiogenesis (b. 1933)
2009 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin (b. 1937)
2009 - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (b. 1920)