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Deaths

616 - King Ethelbert of Kent

1525 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier

1563 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)

1588 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist

1666 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)

1674 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)

1685 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)

1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)

1714 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)

1721 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)

1732 - Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)

1777 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)

1779 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)

 
 

1781 - Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)

1799 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (b. 1742)

1810 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (b. 1756)

1812 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)

1815 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (b. 1765)

1825 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician and editor (b. 1754)

1856 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1792)

1914 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg

1925 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)

1953 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)

1970 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)

1975 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)

1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)

 
 

1990 - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (b. 1945)

1990 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1917)

1990 - Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (b. 1896)

1990 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (b. 1927)

1991 - John Daly, South African game show host (b. 1914)

1991 - George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)

1993 - Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)

1994 - Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)

1998 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)

1998 - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)

1999 - Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)

2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)

2002 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)

2003 - John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)

2003 - Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)

2004 - John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)

2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)

2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)

2006 - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)

2006 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)

 

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