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Deaths

96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)

307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder)

1087 - Pope Victor III

1100 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler

1345 - John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)

1380 - King Charles V of France (b. 1338)

1394 - Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)

1406 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow

1589 - Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)

1672 - Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet

1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)

1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)

1775 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)

 
 

1803 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)

1824 - King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)

1829 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771)

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

1865 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)

1911 - Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)

1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)

1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)

1944 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)

1945 - John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)

1950 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)

1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (murdered)

1975 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b.1896)

 
 

1977 - Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)

1977 - Maria Callas, American-born soprano (b. 1923)

1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)

1993 - Rok Petrovi?, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)

1996 - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)

2000 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)

2001 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)

2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)

 

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