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Deaths

460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress

1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)

1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)

1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer

1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)

1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)

1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerilla

1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)

1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)

1920 - Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838)

1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)

1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)

1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)

 
 

1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)

1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)

1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)

1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash: Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)

Steve Gaines (b. 1949)

Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)

1983 - Peter Dudley, British actor

1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)

1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)

1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)

1990 - Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)

1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)

 
 

1995 - Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)

2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)

2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)

2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)

2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)

2004 - Chuck Hiller, baseball player (b. 1934)

2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)

2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)

2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)

 

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