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Deaths
887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
1180 - King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
1721 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)
1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
1827 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)
1860 - Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)
1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
1905 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)
1939 - Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1949 - Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
1959 - Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author
1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)
1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
1980 - Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
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