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Deaths

384 - Pope Damasus I

1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)

1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)

1282 - Llywelyn the Last, Welsh Prince of Gwynedd

1282 - Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225)

1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)

1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)

1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)

1757 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. 1675)

1797 - Richard Brocklesby, British physician (b. 1722)

1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)

1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)

1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)

 
 

1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)

1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist and recipient of Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)

1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)

1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)

1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)

1964 - Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)

1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)

1984 - Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born scholar (b. 1911)

1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)

1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)

1996 - Willie Rushton, British cartoonist (b. 1937)

 
 

1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)

2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Côte d'Ivoire writer (b. 1927)

2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)

 

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