Famous Deaths

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0810 - Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
0975 - Edgar, King of England (959-75), dies
1115 - Petrus van Amiens, French Crusades predictor, dies
1153 - Eugene III, [Bernardo], Italian Pope (1145-53), dies
1249 - Alexander II, king of Scotland (1215-49), dies at 51
1253 - Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies
1496 - Benedetto Bonfiglio, Italian painter, dies
1531 - Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (Chile/Peru), dies at about 63
1623 - Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], bishop of Bologna/Pope, dies at 69
1656 - Alexander van der Capellen, mister of Aartsbergen, dies at about 64
1679 - Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies
1681 - Georg Neumark, composer, dies at 60
1695 - Christiaen Huygens, inventor/astronomer, dies at 66
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29
1859 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59), dies at 60
1863 - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
1870 - John D Zocher Jr, architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79
1876 - Josef Dessauer, composer, dies at 78
1882 - Phiz [Habl“t Knight Browne], English artist (David Cupperfield), dies
1885 - Hendrick Waelput, composer, dies at 39
1885 - Henry Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Blessing of Arms), dies
1894 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer, dies
1909 - Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, Fren min of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
1919 - Johan A DŠr Mouw, Dutch philosopher/poet, dies at 56
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies
1939 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80
1941 - Philippe Gaubert, composer, dies at 62
1942 - Catherinus Elling, composer, dies at 83
1942 - Louis FMF Franchet d'EspŠrey, French marshal (WW I), dies at 90
1943 - Harry Oakes, Canadian ruler of Bahamas, murdered
1943 - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed
1946 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
1948 - Dave Nourse, cricketer (45 Tests for South Africa 1902-24), dies
1949 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer, dies at 66
1949 - Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian economist/sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71
1956 - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, dutch min of Justice (Nobel 54), dies
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian author/poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75
1957 - Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29), dies at 78
1957 - Henry Fevrier, composer, dies at 81
1957 - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
1959 - Dale Buisand and Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War
1961 - Julian Bautista, composer, dies at 60
1969 - Gladys Swarthout, opera singer/actress (Ambush), dies at 64
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies
1979 - John Reed King, TV host (Why?, Let's See), dies at 64
1979 - Michael Wilding, actor (Waterloo, Zarakm Naked Edge), dies
1981 - Loring Smith, actor (Hartmans), dies at 86
1982 - Isa Miranda, model/actress (Summertime), dies of infected bone at 77
1984 - Christine McIntyre, actress (3 Stooges), dies at 73
1984 - Franz F�hmann, writer, dies at 62
1985 - Simon Kuznets, US economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84
1985 - Phil Foster, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne and Shirley), dies at 72
1985 - Gardner Cowles Jr, US publisher (Look Magazine), dies at 82
1990 - Howard Duff, actor (Heist, Knots Landing), dies of heart attack at 72
1990 - Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies
1991 - James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), dies at of emphysema 57
1991 - Lotte Palfi Andor, actress (Lovesick, All the Jazz), dies
1994 - Robert E Lee, dies of cancer at 75
1994 - Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82
1994 - Dominic Lucero, dancer/singer, dies of lymphatic cancer
1994 - Dick Sargent, actor (Darren-Bewitched), dies of cancer at 64
1994 - Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies
1995 - Elizabeth Adams, madam, dies at 65
1996 - Amschel Rothschild, banker, dies at 41
1996 - Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81
1996 - James Woodie Alexander, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 80
1996 - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90
1997 - Charles Drake, geologist, dies of heart attack at 92

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