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Deaths

964 - Pope John XII

1470 - King Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409

1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)

1610 - King Henry IV of France (assassinated) (b. 1553)

1643 - King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)

1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)

1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)

1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)

1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)

1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)

1818 - Matthew Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)

1843 - Princess Ljubica of Serbia (b. 1788)

1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)

 
 

1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)

1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)

1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)

1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)

1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829)

1912 - King Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)

1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)

1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)

1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)

1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)

1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright (b. 1853)

1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)

1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist (b. 1869)

 
 

1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1854)

1945 - Heber J. Grant, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)

1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)

1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)

1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)

1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)

1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)

1970 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)

1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)

1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)

1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)

1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)

1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)

1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)

1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)

1991 - Jiang Qing, Madame Mao (b. 1914)

1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)

1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)

1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)

1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)

1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)

2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)

2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)

2003 - Dame Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)

2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)

2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)

2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)

2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)

 

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