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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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