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Deaths

965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy

1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle)

1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily

1371 - King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)

1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)

1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)

1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)

1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress

1690 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)

1727 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)

1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)

1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)

1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)

 
 

1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)

1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court

1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)

1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)

1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)

1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)

1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)

1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)

1903 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)

1913 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)

1919 - Julia, Princess of Serbia (b. 1831)

1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)

1923 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)

 
 

1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)

1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)

1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)

1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1888)

1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)

1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)

1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)

1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1939)

1976 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)

1976 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)

1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)

1983 - Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)

1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)

1985 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)

1985 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)

1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)

1994 - Papa John Creach, American musician

1995 - Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)

1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)

1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)

2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)

2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)

2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)

2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)

2004 - Andy Seminick, baseball player (b. 1920)

2005 - Zdzis?aw Beksi?ski, Polish artist (b. 1929)

2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)

2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)

 

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