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Deaths

858 - Pope Benedict III

1307 - Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271)

1498 - King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)

1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)

1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)

1651 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)

1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)

1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)

1663 - Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583)

1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)

1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (b. 1651)

1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)

1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshall (b. 1676)

 
 

1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. 1702)

1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)

1767 - Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715)

1782 - Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734)

1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)

1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)

1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)

1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)

1833 - Antoni Radziwi??, Polish politician (b. 1775)

1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)

1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)

1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (b. 1781)

1871 - Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)

 
 

1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)

1891 - P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)

1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)

1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)

1943 - Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet

1943 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)

1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)

1950 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)

1955 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)

1968 - Jimmy Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)

1981 - Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)

1984 - Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1924)

1986 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1912)

1990 - Ronald Evans, astronaut (b. 1933)

1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic professional football player and politician (b. 1923)

1994 - Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)

1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)

1997 - Witto Aloma, baseball player (b. 1923)

1997 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (b. 1935)

1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)

1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and environmentalist (b. 1890)

2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)

2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)

2002 - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)

2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)

2005 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (b. 1920)

 

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