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Deaths

685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)

1277 - Pope John XXI (b. 1215)

1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)

1444 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)

1503 - Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian patron of the arts (b. 1463)

1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)

1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)

1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)

1648 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)

1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (b. 1612)

1713 - Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)

1717 - John Trevor, Speaker of the English House of Commons (b. 1637)

1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)

 
 

1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)

1782 - William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)

1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)

1834 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, French soldier and statesman (b. 1757)

1841 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775)

1873 - Sir George-ÿtienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)

1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)

1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (b. 1850)

1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)

1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)

1956 - Max Beerbohm, English theater critic (b. 1872)

1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)

 
 

1975 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)

1978 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist, composer and teacher (b. 1895)

1989 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

1989 - Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)

1996 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)

2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)

2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (b. 1920)

2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)

2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)

2006 - Cherd Songsri, Thai film director

 

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