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1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)

1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)

1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria.

1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier

1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)

1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)

1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)

1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)

1665 - King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)

1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)

1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and diarist (b. 1647)

1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687)

1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)

 
 

1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)

1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)

1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)

1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)

1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)

1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)

1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)

1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)

1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)

1936 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)

1938 - Bruno Jasie?ski, Polish poet (b. 1901)

1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)

1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)

 
 

1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)

1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)

1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)

1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)

1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)

1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)

1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)

1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)

2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)

2000 - Paula Yates, English reporter (b. 1960)

2003 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (b. 1921)

2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)

 

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