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Deaths

1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed)

1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)

1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)

1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist

1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)

1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)

1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)

1711 - Joseph Vaz, Catholic Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)

1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)

1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)

1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)

1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)

1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)

 
 

1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)

1809 - John Moore, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1761)

1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)

1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759)

1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)

1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)

1891 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)

1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)

1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)

1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1870)

1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)

1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)

1962 - Ivan Me?trovi?, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)

 
 

1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)

1969 - Jan Palach, Czech Freedom Fighter (b. 1948)

1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, American actor and songwriter (b. 1919)

1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)

1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)

1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)

1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)

1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)

1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)

1988 - Andrija Artukovi?, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)

1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)

1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (murdered)

2000 - John Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)

2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)

2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)

2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)

2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)

2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)

2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)

2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)

 

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