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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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