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809 - Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)

1284 - King Hugh III of Cyprus

1361 - Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, English soldier and diplomat

1381 - Catherine of Sweden, Swedish saint

1455 - Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)

1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)

1575 - Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)

1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)

1653 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)

1773 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (b. 1694)

1776 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)

1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)

1881 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)

 
 

1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)

1887 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)

1905 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)

1909 - John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)

1915 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)

1916 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (drowned) (b. 1867)

1944 - Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)

1946 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)

1950 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)

1953 - Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)

1962 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)

1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)

1972 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (b. 1895)

 
 

1976 - Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)

1980 - ÿscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador (b. 1917)

1984 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)

1990 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)

1990 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (b. 1920)

1991 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor General of Australia (b. 1914)

1993 - John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)

1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (b. 1902)

1999 - Birdie Tebbetts, baseball player and manager (b. 1912)

2002 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)

2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)

 

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