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Deaths

1246 - Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Prince of Gwynedd

1522 - William Lilye, English classical scholar

1536 - Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)

1553 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (d. 1492)

1558 - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)

1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)

1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)

1634 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)

1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)

1655 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)

1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)

1713 - King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)

1715 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)

 
 

1723 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)

1756 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)

1798 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)

1805 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)

1831 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)

1850 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)

1852 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)

1860 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)

1899 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)

1912 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)

1945 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)

1950 - George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1885)

1953 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)

 
 

1957 - George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)

1964 - Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)

1970 - Mark Rothko, American painter

1971 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

1975 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)

1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (b. 1920)

1983 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)

1987 - James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)

1994 - Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass killer (b. 1956)

1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)

1996 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)

1999 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)

2003 - Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)

2003 - Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)

2005 - Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)

2006 - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)

2006 - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)

 

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