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Deaths

796 - Offa, King of Mercia

811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)

1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)

1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)

1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)

1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)

1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)

1712 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)

1723 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)

1863 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)

1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)

1919 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)

1925 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)

 
 

1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)

1932 - Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876)

1935 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)

1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)

1952 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)

1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)

1969 - Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)

1971 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (b. 1923)

1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)

1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)

1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)

1992 - Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)

2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)

 
 

US - Aunt and Uncle's Day

Cuba - Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack Day (1953), Revolution Day

Liberia - Independence Day

Maldives - Independence Day

India - Vijay Divas (end of Kargil War)

Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 2 saints: St. Anne (mother of St. Mary)

St. Germain

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