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1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury

1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535)

1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (murdered) (b. 1581)

1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)

1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)

1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)

1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)

1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)

1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician

1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)

1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)

1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)

1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality

 
 

1842 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)

1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)

1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)

1883 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)

1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)

1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)

1921 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)

1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)

1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)

1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)

1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (shot) (b. 1883)

1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)

1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)

 
 

1973 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)

1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1898)

1980 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)

1987 - Steven Tuomi, Murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)

1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)

2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)

2003 - Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)

2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (prostate cancer) (b. 1948)

2004 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)

 

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