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1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)

1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)

1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)

1556 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake) (b. 1489)

1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)

1656 - James Ussher, Irish Catholic archbishop (b. 1581)

1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)

1729 - John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)

1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)

1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)

1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)

1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)

1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)

 
 

1801 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)

1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)

1843 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)

1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)

1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler

1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)

1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)

1910 - Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)

1934 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (b. 1878)

1936 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)

1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)

1958 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)

1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)

 
 

1985 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)

1987 - Dean Paul Martin, American musician (b. 1951)

1987 - Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)

1991 - Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer (b. 1909)

1994 - Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)

1994 - Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)

1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)

1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)

1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)

2001 - Chung Ju-young, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)

2001 - Norma Macmillan, voice actress (b. 1921)

2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)

2005 - Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)

2005 - Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)

 

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