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Deaths

727 - Saint Frideswide

1187 - Pope Urban III

1216 - King John

1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)

1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)

1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)

1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician

1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)

1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)

1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)

1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)

1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)

1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)

 
 

1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)

1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)

1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)

1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)

1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)

1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)

1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)

1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)

1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)

1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)

1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)

1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)

1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)

 
 

1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)

1992 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b. 1920)

1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)

1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)

1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)

2003 - Faith Fancher, American television journalist and activist (b. 1950)

2003 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)

2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)

2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)

2004 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist and inventor of the APL programming language (b. 1920)

2005 - Dallas Cook, A trombone player in third-wave ska band Suburban Legends (b. 1982)

 

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