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496 - Pope Gelasius I

1361 - Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)

1555 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)

1566 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507

1579 - Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier

1652 - Jan Bro?ek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)

1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer

1775 - John Hill, British writer

1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)

1844 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)

1881 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)

1899 - Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)

1916 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (b. 1830)

 
 

1941 - Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860).

1942 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)

1945 - Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889)

1953 - Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)

1957 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)

1959 - Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)

1970 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

1974 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897)

1974 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)

1988 - Carl Hubbell, baseball player (b. 1903)

1991 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (b. 1907)

1993 - Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)

1995 - Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin,Bad Company) (b. 1935)

 
 

1995 - Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)

1996 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)

1999 - Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor. (b. 1908)

2000 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)

2001 - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)

2002 - Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)

2005 - Alfred Anderson, last British World War I veteran (b. 1896)

 

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