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1227 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)

1373 - Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)

1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (born 1343)

1531 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers

1584 - John Day, English printer (b. 1522)

1692 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)

1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain

1757 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)

1764 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)

1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)

1781 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)

1793 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)

1853 - Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)

 
 

1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)

1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)

1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)

1920 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)

1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)

1942 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)

1948 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)

1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)

1955 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871)

1966 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)

1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1875)

1971 - Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)

1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot (b. 1890)

 
 

1982 - Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)

1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)

1985 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)

1989 - Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)

1993 - James Jordan, father of Michael Jordan

1997 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)

1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)

2001 - Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)

2002 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)

2002 - Dr. William L. Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)

2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)

2003 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)

2004 - Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)

2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)

 

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