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Deaths
1085 - Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048)
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of Henry II of England
1205 - King Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145)
1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer
1621 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
1682 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1625)
1684 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
1787 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)
1839 - Benjamin Pierce, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1757)
1872 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
1878 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (b. 1796)
1914 - Rube Waddell, baseball player (b. 1876)
1917 - Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
1922 - Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)
1946 - Noah Beery, American actor (b. 1882)
1947 - King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
1950 - Charles R. Drew, American physician (b. 1904)
1965 - Helena Rubinstein, cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1870)
1966 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
1968 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)
1984 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
1986 - Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer (b. 1928)
1988 - Jim Jordan, American actor (Fibber McGee) (b. 1896)
1991 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
1993 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b. 1954)
1998 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963)
1998 - Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)
2001 - Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (b. 1919)
2001 - Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (b. 1939)
2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (b. 1956)
2004 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
2005 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
2005 - Jack Keller, songwriter (leukemia) (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert Coldwell Wood, American university president and political appointee (b. 1923)
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