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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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