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Deaths
1278 - King Otakar II of Bohemia
1346 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy: Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1595 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter
1714 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
1785 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
1915 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German anti-Nazi diplomat (executed)
1945 - Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
1968 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
1978 - Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
1978 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 - Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
1980 - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
1986 - Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
1987 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1988 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989 - Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 - Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
2005 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
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