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Deaths

472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire

937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy

969 - Olga of Kiev

1174 - King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)

1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)

1535 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)

1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero

1665 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (b. 1603)

1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)

1688 - Narai, King of Siam

1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)

1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer

1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)

 
 

1797 - Ien?chi?? V?c?rescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)

1804 - Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)

1806 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Indpendence

1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)

1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)

1937 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)

1959 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)

1966 - Delmore Schwartz, American Poet (b. 1913)

1971 - John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)

1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)

1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)

1994 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)

 
 

1994 - Savannah American actress (b. 1970

1999 - Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)

2000 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)

2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)

2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946)

2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)

2005 - Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)

2005 - Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)

 

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