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Deaths
869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1831 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian writer and lexicographer (b. 1579)
1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer
1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
1987 - Danilo Blanu?a, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
1996 - Nevill Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1905)
2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher; billionaire (b. 1918)
2005 - Gene Mauch, American athlete and manager (b. 1925)
2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (cancer) (b. 1938)
2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
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