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Deaths
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1546 - Anne Askew, English protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1630 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
1647 - Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1916 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, French writer (b. 1870)
1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politican (b. 1920)
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1995 - Stephen Spender, British poet (b. 1909)
1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (STYX) (b. 1948)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
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