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Deaths

1100 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1077)

1270 - Saint Isabel of France, daughter of Louis VIII of France (b. 1225)

1447 - Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)

1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)

1464 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)

1526 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies

1554 - Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English poltician (executed)

1572 - Pierre Certon, French composer

1603 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)

1669 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)

1704 - Georg Muffat, French composer (b. 1653)

1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)

1766 - Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)

 
 

1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence

1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)

1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)

1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)

1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)

1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)

1879 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)

1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)

1908 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)

1922 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)

1930 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)

1934 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)

1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)

 
 

1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)

1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868).

1965 - Stan Laurel, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)

1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)

1973 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)

1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)

1979 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)

1990 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)

1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)

1995 - James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916)

1997 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b. 1945)

2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)

2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)

2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)

2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)

2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)

2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)

2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)

2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)

2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)

 

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