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397 - Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies
618 - Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 - Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1226 - Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
1228 - Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies
1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1494 - Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies
1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1578 - Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51
1590 - Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49
1595 - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69
1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1638 - Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
1658 - Pieter Florisz, Dutch admiral, dies in battle at about 50
1658 - Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies in battle at 59
1674 - John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
1694 - Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58
1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1757 - Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60
1805 - Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1811 - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
1817 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1833 - Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85
1873 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
1880 - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
1885 - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71
1886 - Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29
1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
1890 - Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67
1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1908 - Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1909 - Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46
1909 - Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80
1917 - Colyn Blythe, cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies during WW I
1920 - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
1920 - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1921 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1924 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64
1928 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45
1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1937 - James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71
1941 - Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1944 - Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
1952 - Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for S Africa), dies
1953 - Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83
1953 - John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1963 - Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51
1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
1968 - Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54
1969 - Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62
1970 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60
1977 - Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1978 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1979 - Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
1979 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
1983 - Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1984 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer, dies at 81
1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
1986 - Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
1989 - Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
1990 - Anya Seton, US author, dies
1990 - Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87
1991 - Christine Felsmann, dies
1991 - Frances Faye, singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes
1991 - John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
1991 - Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, pres of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies
1992 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies
1992 - Keith "Red" Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies
1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 - Garson Romalis, abortion doctor, killed (no arrests)
1994 - Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, comedy writer (SNL), dies at 54
1995 - Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40
1995 - Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73
1996 - Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89
1996 - Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
1999 - Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
2003 - Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2003 - Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
2004 - Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
2006 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
2007 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
2007 - Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)