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Deaths
1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
1559 - Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476)
1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1951 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)
1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
1960 - Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
1960 - Johnny Horton, Country music singer, (b.1925)
1960 - Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (b. 1880)
1974 - Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1977 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908)
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
1990 - Erich Heller, British philosopher, long resident in the U.S. (b. 1911)
1990 - Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist (b. 1932)
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
1992 - Ãrpád ÿl?, Hungarian physicist (b. 1903)
1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909)
2000 - Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)
2001 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)
2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
2005 - John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
2005 - Link Wray, American musician (b. 1929)
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