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883 - Albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies
1126 - Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
1144 - Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle
1202 - Sverre of Norway
1223 - Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
1403 - Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42
1466 - Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64
1550 - Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55
1638 - Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73
1640 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
1661 - Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58
1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
1702 - John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69
1702 - William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 [NS-Mar 19]
1702 - William III of England (b. 1650)
1709 - William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
1716 - Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69
1720 - Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53
1724 - Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81
1728 - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64
1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
1734 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33
1754 - Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs, dies
1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
1819 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739)
1828 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75
1844 - Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
1855 - William Poole, Infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
1862 - Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
1862 - Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
1869 - Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74
1887 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
1889 - Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85
1901 - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
1901 - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
1919 - Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88
1920 - Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69
1923 - Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1923 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
1930 - Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
1931 - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
1932 - Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
1937 - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71
1937 - Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1941 - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67
1941 - Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64
1942 - Jose R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53
1945 - H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
1945 - Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1950 - Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67
1951 - Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair
1951 - John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83
1954 - Percy Twentyman-Jones, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Afr), dies
1955 - Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82
1957 - Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70
1958 - Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85
1959 - Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered
1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
1963 - John Hartley, cricketer (bowl avg 115 in 2 Tests for Eng 1906), dies
1965 - Esther Howard, actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72
1967 - John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46
1971 - Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77
1972 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899)
1973 - Gordon Leggat, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 351 runs at 21 93), dies
1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27
1974 - Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
1974 - Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56
1975 - George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
1976 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
1977 - Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
1983 - William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
1985 - Edward Andrews, actor (Broadside), dies at 70 of a heart attack
1985 - Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs), dies at 33
1986 - Hubert Fichte, writer, dies at 50
1988 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
1988 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
1992 - Red Callender, US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76
1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
1993 - Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78
1993 - Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
1993 - Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
1994 - John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55
1994 - Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
1994 - Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
1995 - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1995 - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91
1995 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
1996 - Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45
1996 - Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando, dies at 89
1996 - Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
1997 - Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75
1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1999 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)
2001 - Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2003 - Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
2005 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
2006 - Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
2007 - John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
2007 - John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach.. (b. 1947)
2008 - Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (b. 1944)
2009 - Ali Bongo, President of the Magic Circle (b.1929)
2009 - Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)