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705 - Empress Wu of Zhou (China; b. 625)

714 - Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia

999 - Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)

1325 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)

1379 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)

1470 - John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)

1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)

1669 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician

1687 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)

1751 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)

1774 - François Quesnay, French economist (b. 1694)

1783 - Johann A. Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)

1783 - Sir William James British naval commander (b. 1720)

 
 

1809 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)

1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1786)

1898 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)

1914 - Ivan Zajc, Austro-Hungarian composer (b. 1832)

1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)

1921 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)

1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of Poland (b. 1865)

1928 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)

1945 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1866)

1945 - Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)

1949 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)

1956 - Nina Hamnett, British artist (b. 1890)

1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, British writer (b. 1874)

 
 

1977 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)

1980 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)

1980 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)

1982 - Colin Chapman, British engineer and automobile manufacturer, founder of Lotus Cars (b. 1928)

1985 - Paul Castellano, American mafioso (b. 1915)

1985 - Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)

1989 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)

1989 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)

1990 - Douglas Campbell, American pilot (b. 1896)

1993 - Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)

1993 - Tanaka Kakuei, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)

1995 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (b. 1939)

1996 - Quentin Bell, British art historian (b. 1910)

2001 - Stuart Adamson, British musician (suicide) (b. 1958)

2003 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)

2003 - Gary Stewart, American musician, singer and songwriter (suicide) (b. 1945)

2004 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)

2005 - Kenneth Bulmer, British author (b.1921)

2005 - John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)

 

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