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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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