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1316 - Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)

1375 - Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)

1472 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)

1539 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)

1666 - Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)

1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)

1715 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)

1719 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)

1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)

1833 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)

1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)

1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)

1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)

 
 

1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)

1920 - Max Klinger, German artist (b. 1857)

1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)

1932 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)

1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)

1948 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)

1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor

1965 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)

1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

1969 - Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)

1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)

1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini (b. 1908)

1983 - Harry James, American musician (b. 1916)

 
 

1991 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)

1996 - Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904)

1998 - Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)

2002 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)

2002 - Ted Williams, baseball player (b. 1918)

2003 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian hockey player (b. 1979)

2004 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)

2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)

2005 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)

2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)

 

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