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Deaths

1126 - Queen Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)

1144 - Pope Celestine II

1202 - King Sverre of Norway

1223 - Wincenty Kad?ubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)

1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)

1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)

1702 - King William III of England (b. 1650)

1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)

1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)

1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)

1844 - King Charles XIV of Sweden, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, French Napoleonic general (b. 1763)

1869 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)

1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)

 
 

1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813)

1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (b. 1820)

1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (b. 1803)

1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)

1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)

1941 - Sherwood Anderson, American author, (b. 1876)

1942 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)

1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)

1971 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)

1972 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899)

1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)

1975 - George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)

1976 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)

 
 

1983 - William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)

1985 - Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)

1988 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)

1988 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)

1993 - Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)

1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)

1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)

1999 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (b. 1914)

2001 - Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)

2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)

2003 - Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)

2004 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)

2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)

2005 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)

 

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