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395 - Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49
1103 - Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies
1119 - Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies
1229 - Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68
1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
1598 - Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
1604 - Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61
1617 - Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68
1617 - Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
1620 - Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59
1625 - Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50
1654 - Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried
1661 - Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed
1676 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
1702 - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [OS=Jan 6]
1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
1738 - Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
1750 - Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78
1781 - Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies
1788 - Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
1805 - Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73
1820 - Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73
1823 - Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1830 - W Waiblinger, writer, dies
1833 - James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
1833 - William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies
1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
1856 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41
1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73
1869 - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55
1874 - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62
1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
1887 - William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
1889 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
1890 - Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
1891 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
1893 - Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
1901 - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
1902 - Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
1908 - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
1909 - Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
1910 - Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
1910 - Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
1911 - Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88
1913 - Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73
1917 - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70
1927 - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1932 - Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
1933 - John Hodges, cricketer (6 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), dies
1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1936 - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
1938 - William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
1941 - Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82
1942 - Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
1946 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59
1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
1952 - Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Det Tigers), dies at 74
1955 - J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68
1955 - Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
1959 - Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36
1962 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56
1964 - Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57
1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
1966 - Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82
1968 - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
1969 - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59
1970 - Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32
1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1972 - Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55
1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1973 - Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77
1976 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident
1977 - Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
1980 - Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr & Mrs North), dies at 59
1981 - Bernard Lee, actor (M in James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1981 - Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
1983 - Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71
1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
1989 - Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
1990 - Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
1991 - Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
1992 - Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95
1992 - Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer
1992 - Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies
1992 - Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
1993 - Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies
1993 - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
1994 - Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
1994 - Chung Il Kwon, PM of S Korea (1964-70), dies
1994 - Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66
1994 - Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
1994 - Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
1994 - Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84
1994 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
1994 - Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
1995 - Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
1995 - Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
1996 - Barbara Charline Jordan, politician, dies at 59
1996 - Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83
1996 - Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85
1996 - John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83
1996 - Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54
1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
1997 - Andrea Fisher, artist, dies at 21
1997 - Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies
1997 - Clyde William Tombaugh, discoverer (Pluto), dies at 90
1997 - Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
1998 - Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82
1999 - Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
2000 - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
2002 - Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
2004 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2007 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
2008 - Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
2008 - Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
2009 - Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)