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1118 - Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem

1272 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)

1335 - Duke Henry of Carinthia

1412 - Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer

1502 - Prince Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)

1507 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)

1657 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)

1720 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)

1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)

1747 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)

1754 - Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)

1787 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)

1791 - Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)

 
 

1801 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer

1803 - Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1721)

1817 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)

1827 - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)

1865 - General A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1825)

1872 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)

1902 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)

1914 - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)

1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)

1928 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

1930 - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)

1936 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)

1953 - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)

 
 

1966 - C.S. Forester, British author (b. 1899)

1972 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player (b. 1924)

1972 - Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)

1974 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)

1987 - Buddy Rich, American drummer (b. 1917)

1994 - Betty Furness, American actress (b. 1916)

1995 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (b. 1904)

1995 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1908)

2000 - Tommaso Buscetta, Italian gangster (b. 1928)

2001 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)

2003 - Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)

2005 - Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)

2006 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)

 

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