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1131 - King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)

1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)

1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)

1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (b. 1334)

1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer

1536 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)

1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)

1620 - Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)

1633 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)

1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)

1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)

1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)

1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)

 
 

1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)

1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)

1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)

1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700)

1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)

1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)

1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)

1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)

1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)

1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)

1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)

1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)

1911 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)

 
 

1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)

1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)

1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)

1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)

1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)

1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinettist (b. 1906)

1936 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)

1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863)

1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)

1943 - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (b. 1863)

1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)

1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)

1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)

1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)

1979 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)

1980 - Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)

1984 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)

1988 - Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)

1991 - Edwin H. Land, American inventor (b. 1909)

1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (b. 1956)

1995 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)

2000 - Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)

2006 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)

2006 - Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)

2006 - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)

2006 - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)

 

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