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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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