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1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)

1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect

1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)

1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)

1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)

1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony

1784 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)

1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)

1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect

1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)

1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest, Saint (b. 1789)

1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1770)

1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)

 
 

1865 - William Quantrill, American Confederate raider (b. 1837)

1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)

1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)

1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)

1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician (b. 1859)

1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)

1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)

1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer and race car driver (b. 1878)

1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)

1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)

1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)

1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator from New York (b. 1925)

1968 - Randolph Churchill, only son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (b. 1911)

 
 

1975 - Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)

1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)

1976 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)

1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)

1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)

1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912)

1991 - Stan Getz, American musician and composer (b. 1927)

1992 - Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1952)

1996 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)

2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)

2003 - H.I.T.L.A.H. Capo Confucious, American rapper (b. 1980)

2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)

2005 - Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)

2006 - Billy Preston, American songwriter, musician, and singer (b. 1946)

2006 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952)

2006 - Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)

 

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