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Deaths
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 - JunÃpero 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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