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1181 - Pope Alexander III (b. 1105?)

1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)

1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)

1546 - ÿtienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)

1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander

1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)

1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)

1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)

1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)

1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)

1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)

1773 - Stanis?aw Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)

1780 - ÿtienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)

 
 

1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)

1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)

1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)

1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)

1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)

1877 - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (b.1805)

1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)

1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)

1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)

1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)

1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)

1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873)

 
 

1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)

1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)

1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)

1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)

1977 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b.1913)

1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1929)

1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916)

1995 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)

1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)

1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)

2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)

2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)

2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)

2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)

2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)

2005 - Steven Vincent, American journalist (b. 1955)

 

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