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Deaths

54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)

1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)

1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)

1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)

1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)

1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)

1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)

1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)

1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)

1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)

1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)

1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)

1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)

 
 

1815 - Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767)

1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1756)

1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)

1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)

1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)

1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)

1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)

1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress

1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)

1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)

1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)

1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)

1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)

 
 

1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)

1968 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)

1974 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)

1979 - Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)

1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1990 - Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)

1998 - Gunpei Yokoi, creator of the Game Boy (b. 1941)

2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)

2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)

 

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