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388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper against Valentinian III

430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)

1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309)

1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)

1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)

1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)

1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)

1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)

1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713)

1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)

1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)

1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)

1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago

 
 

1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)

1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)

1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)

1919 - Louis Botha, Boer leader (b. 1862)

1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)

1959 - Bohuslav Martin?, Romanian composer (b. 1890)

1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)

1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)

1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)

1985 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)

1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)

1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)

1993 - William Stafford, American writer (b. 1914)

 
 

1995 - Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929)

2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)

2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematican (b. 1911)

 

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