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375 - Valentinianus I, co-emperor of E Roman Empire (336-75), dies at ñ54
474 - Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (474), dies
594 - Gregorius van Tours, Frankisch bishop of Tours, dies
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 - Queen Liutgard
1093 - Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III, dies
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1512 - Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1558 - Mary I Tudor, "Bloody Mary", queen of England (1553-58), dies at 42
1558 - Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1608 - Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, composer, dies
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75
1770 - Gian Francesco de Majo, composer, dies at 38
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catharina II the Great, empress of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 - Charlotte Sophia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, dies
1826 - Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47
1848 - Jozef B "Olim" Cannaert, Flemish lawyer, dies
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
1856 - William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1862 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1875 - Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies
1893 - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86), dies at 36
1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolf WAKF, duke of Nassau/grand duke of Luxembourg, dies at 88
1905 - Philip EFMCBLG, earl of Flanders, dies
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1917 - F-Auguste-R Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77
1921 - John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies
1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1927 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 - A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies
1929 - Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
1931 - Georgi Atanasov, composer, dies at 50
1931 - John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, cricketer (Australian batsman 1885-99, 11 Tests), dies
1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1941 - Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1943 - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer, dies at 74
1944 - A C MacLaren, cricketer (England batsman from turn of century), dies
1947 - Ricarda Huch, writer, dies at 83
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James Price Johnson, composer, dies at 64
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer/pianist/conductor, dies at 72
1962 - Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 95 in Miami
1968 - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer, dies at 86
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1970 - Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69
1971 - Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues), dies at 83
1971 - Jackie Cooper, actor (People's Choice), dies at 49
1971 - Melville Cooper, actor (Diane, Bundle of Joy), dies of cancer at 75
1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1974 - Clive Brook, actor/director (On Approval), dies at 87
1975 - Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage), dies at 70
1976 - Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60
1978 - Claude Dauphin, actor (Paris Precinct), dies at 75
1978 - James J "Gene" Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8), dies at 80
1979 - John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery
1981 - Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65
1982 - Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 69
1982 - Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer, legally declared dead
1982 - Eduard Tubin, composer, dies at 77
1982 - Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at 86 in NYC
1984 - Jan Novak, composer, dies at 63
1985 - Jimmy Ritz, actor (Ritz Brothers), dies of heart failure at 81
1986 - Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71
1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1987 - Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady), dies at 81
1988 - Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, dies of heart failure at 84
1989 - Billy Lee, actor (Sons of Legion, Biscuit Eater), dies
1989 - Emerson Buckley, composer, dies at 73
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1991 - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80
1991 - Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter), suicide at 33
1991 - Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55
1992 - Audre Lorde, St Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies
1993 - Jthm de Vreeze, Dutch MP (KVP, 1956..77), dies at 80
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1994 - G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
1995 - Alan Hull, singer/composer, dies at 50
1995 - Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng, dies at 66
1995 - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88
1995 - Marguerite Young, writer, dies at 87
1995 - Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60
1996 - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45
1996 - Johan Fleming Ramsland, broadcaster, dies at 54
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2008 - Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2008 - George Stephen Morrison, American admiral and father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison