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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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