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583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
942 - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
1434 - Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1569 - Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1669 - Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42
1691 - Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1703 - Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies
1754 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76
1762 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86
1768 - Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
1777 - Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1778 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
1782 - Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
1790 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
1805 - Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
1819 - Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
1829 - William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
1830 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
1835 - Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
1847 - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
1862 - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
1863 - Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1864 - Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
1880 - Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76
1891 - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1892 - John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
1892 - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74
1903 - Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
1904 - N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
1910 - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
1913 - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
1918 - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64
1920 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
1926 - Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
1928 - Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
1929 - Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
1932 - Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 - William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
1938 - Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
1942 - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
1943 - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
1944 - George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
1944 - Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75
1944 - Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
1944 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
1949 - William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
1952 - Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v S Afr 1892), dies
1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
1954 - Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
1955 - James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
1958 - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
1959 - Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69
1959 - Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
1961 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
1966 - Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
1969 - Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
1972 - Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79
1975 - Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1979 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)
1983 - Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52
1984 - Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
1984 - Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1988 - Carrie Baxter, Best Bodybuilder (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42
1988 - Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42
1988 - Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
1988 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)
1989 - Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
1990 - Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
1990 - Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53
1990 - Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64
1991 - Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
1992 - Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
1992 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960)
1993 - Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
1994 - Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
1994 - Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
1994 - Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
1994 - Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
1995 - Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
1995 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82
1996 - Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60
1996 - Mike Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) commits suicide at 57
1996 - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72
1997 - Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)
2000 - Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
2001 - Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
2002 - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
2002 - Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
2003 - Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)