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816 - Pope Leo III

918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians

1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury

1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)

1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)

1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)

1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)

1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian

1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)

1734 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670)

1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)

1778 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)

1816 - Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione, French marshal (b. 1757)

 
 

1912 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)

1917 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)

1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)

1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)

1963 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)

1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)

1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)

1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)

1980 - Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)

1980 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)

1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)

1983 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (b. 1902)

1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)

 
 

1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (murdered) (b. 1969)

1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O. J. Simpson (murdered) (b. 1959)

1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)

1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)

1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)

2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi Writer (b. 1919)

2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)

2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)

2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)

2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)

 

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