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Deaths
310 - Pope Eusebius
1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman and founder of Stockholm (b. 1210)
1422 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (b. 1484)
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1662 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
1687 - Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794)
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer and writer who spent a lot of time in North Africa (b. 1877)
1931 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1969 - Jack Kerouac, American novelist (b. 1922)
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1984 - François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1987 - Jonathan David Cardey, English Legend also wrote and directed "Jono Vs The World"
1995 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967)
1995 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
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