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984 - Pope John XIV

1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)

1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)

1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)

1611 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)

1639 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)

1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)

1648 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)

1672 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)

1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)

1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)

1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)

1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)

 
 

1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)

1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)

1823 - Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)

1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)

1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)

1904 - René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)

1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)

1914 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835)

1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)

1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)

1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)

1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)

1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)

 
 

1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)

2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)

2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (heart disease) (b. 1981)

2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)

 

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