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1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria

1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)

1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)

1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)

1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)

1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)

1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)

1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)

1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)

1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)

1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia.

1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)

1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)

 
 

1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)

1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)

1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800

1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)

1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)

1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)

1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)

1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)

1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)

1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)

1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)

1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)

 
 

1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)

1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)

1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)

1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore

1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900)

1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)

1990 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)

1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)

1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946)

1992 - Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)

1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)

1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)

2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)

2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)

2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)

2006 - Johnny Grande, Original accordian/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. (1932)

 

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