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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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