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535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople

1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)

1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester

1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)

1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289)

1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)

1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)

1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)

1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)

1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)

1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)

1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (b. 1659)

1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)

 
 

1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)

1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)

1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)

1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)

1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)

1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)

1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)

1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)

1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)

1942 - Samuel Adams, American naval officer (b. 1912)

1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)

1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)

1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)

 
 

1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b.1909)

1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)

2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)

2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)

2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)

2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)

2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)

2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) (b. 1941)

2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)

 

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