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408 - Arcadius, Roman emperor

1118 - Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)

1308 - Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (b. 1255)

1572 - Pope Pius V (b. 1504)

1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)

1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman

1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)

1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)

1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813)

1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)

1904 - Antonín Dvo?ák, Czech composer (b. 1841)

1937 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868)

1945 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (b. 1897)

 
 

1965 - Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911)

1968 - Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (b. 1886)

1970 - Yi, Eun, Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897)

1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (b. 1939)

1978 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)

1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)

1989 - Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)

1989 - Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921)

1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (suicide) (b. 1925)

1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)

1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)

1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)

2000 - Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)

 
 

2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)

 

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