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1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)

1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic

1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)

1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)

1515 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)

1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)

1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)

1594 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (b. 1512)

1615 - Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general

1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)

1694 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)

1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)

1723 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674)

 
 

1726 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)

1747 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)

1748 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)

1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)

1814 - Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)

1844 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)

1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)

1859 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800)

1860 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)

1892 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)

1918 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)

1924 - Kazimieras B?ga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)

1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)

 
 

1943 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)

1944 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)

1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)

1950 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)

1957 - Harrison Ford, American actor (b. 1884)

1957 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)

1963 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)

1963 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)

1966 - Giles Cooper, Irish-born playwright (b.1918)

1968 - Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902)

1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881)

1974 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)

1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (b. 1917)

1980 - Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)

1980 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)

1982 - Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933)

1983 - Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)

1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)

1985 - Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)

1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917)

1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)

1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)

1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)

1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949)

1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)

1997 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)

2002 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)

2002 - Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)

2003 - Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)

2004 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)

2004 - Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)

2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980)

2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)

 

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