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1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
1263 - Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies
1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
1556 - Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1635 - Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies
1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
1638 - Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
1644 - Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
1687 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, Fren explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43
1702 - Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51
1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1721 - Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71
1782 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer, dies at 59
1782 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer, dies at 33
1796 - Stephen Storace, composer, dies at 33
1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
1797 - Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58
1811 - Frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65
1816 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
1845 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer, dies at 56
1850 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer, dies at 87
1862 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1866 - Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57
1869 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (triangulatie), dies at 64
1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
1876 - Jozef Stefani, composer, dies at 75
1884 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54
1893 - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69
1897 - Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
1898 - Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
1900 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
1900 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
1905 - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
1907 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
1913 - John Thomas, composer, dies at 87
1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1918 - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1930 - Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1934 - Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
1936 - John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63
1937 - Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58
1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1940 - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
1943 - Vicente Ripolles, composer, dies at 75
1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1945 - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
1946 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
1947 - Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1954 - Walter Braunfels, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Vernon Ransford, cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
1961 - Edric Cundell, composer, dies at 68
1969 - Theodor Schaefer, composer, dies at 65
1971 - Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
1971 - Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79
1974 - Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 51
1974 - Edward Platt, actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58
1974 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
1975 - John A DeMott, dies at 63
1976 - George Sklavos, composer, dies at 87
1976 - Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25
1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
1979 - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65
1979 - Richard Beckinsale, actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
1982 - Randy Rhoads, heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), air crash at 25
1984 - Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
1987 - Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77
1987 - Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
1987 - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
1987 - Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
1990 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
1991 - John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
1991 - Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
1991 - Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
1992 - Cesare Danova, actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas), dies at 66
1993 - Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
1993 - Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
1994 - Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
1994 - Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87
1995 - Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
1995 - Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
1995 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83
1996 - Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65
1996 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83
1997 - Willem De Kooning, artists (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92
1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
1999 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
2001 - Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924)
2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
2003 - Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Calvert DeForest, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917)
2008 - Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
2008 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
2009 - Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)