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1162 - Géza II of Hungary

1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)

1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)

1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)

1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)

1704 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)

1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)

1807 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)

1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)

1835 - John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)

1871 - Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)

1884 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)

1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)

 
 

1916 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)

1925 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)

1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)

1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861)

1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)

1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)

1962 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)

1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer, politician, and diplomat (b. 1902)

1975 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)

1985 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)

1988 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)

1992 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)

 
 

1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)

2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor,writer and director (b. 1938)

2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)

2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright/actor (b. 1939)

2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)

2006 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)

2006 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)

2006 - Katherine McCarron, autistic child who died at age three (b. 2003)

 

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