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1100 - Godfrey of Bouillon, French crusader

1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)

1591 - Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)

1608 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)

1610 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)

1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)

1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)

1665 - Stefan Czarniecki, Polish general (b. 1599)

1695 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)

1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)

1721 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)

1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)

1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)

 
 

1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)

1863 - Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)

1872 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)

1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)

1892 - Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)

1918 - several members of the Romanov family, executed by the Bolsheviks Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, (b. 1864)

Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, (b. 1886)

Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, (b. 1891)

Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, (b. 1894).

Vladimir Paley, (b. 1897)

1937 - Julian Bell, British poet, killed in the Spanish Civil War (b. 1908)

1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (b. 1870)

1949 - Vít?zslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)

 
 

1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)

1953 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)

1963 - Jack Solomon, restauranteur, co-founder Gallagher's Steak House (b. 1896)

1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

1988 - Nico, German-born model and singer (b. 1938)

1989 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954)

1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)

1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)

2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)

2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)

2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)

2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)

2005 - William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)

 

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