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514 - Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1054 - Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies
1234 - Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1346 - Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle
1374 - Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69
1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1534 - Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70
1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1545 - George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 - Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1625 - Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50
1627 - Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41
1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 - Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1688 - Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50
1700 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62
1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1740 - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
1742 - John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45
1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 - Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34
1811 - Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76
1814 - Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
1838 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
1844 - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1847 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
1850 - Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1850 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary, dies
1852 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (b. 1842 or 1844)
1892 - Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83
1895 - Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
1895 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1907 - Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
1913 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1914 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1918 - Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies
1922 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
1930 - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
1939 - Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs), dies
1939 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1940 - Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1944 - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1944 - Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
1944 - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
1945 - George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80
1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1951 - Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77
1954 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
1957 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
1958 - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1964 - Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
1965 - Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28
1969 - Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
1970 - Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1973 - Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1973 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
1974 - Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83
1974 - Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59
1974 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1976 - Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73
1976 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70
1977 - John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80
1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
1981 - Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 - Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
1984 - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
1984 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87
1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 - Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83
1990 - Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
1990 - Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
1992 - Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1992 - Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1993 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1993 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1994 - Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
1994 - Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
1994 - Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
1994 - Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
1995 - Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
1995 - James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
1995 - Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66
1995 - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1995 - Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82
1996 - David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician, dies at 73
1996 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
1996 - Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61
1996 - Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87
1996 - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79
1996 - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81
1998 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 - Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 - Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2005 - Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2006 - Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2007 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2008 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
2009 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930)
2009 - Henry Surtees, British racing driver. (b. 1991)