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1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland

1292 - Sheikh Saadi, Persian sufi poet

1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)

1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)

1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)

1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)

1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)

1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)

1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)

1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)

1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)

1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist

1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)

 
 

1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)

1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)

1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)

1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757)

1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)

1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader

1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)

1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League

1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)

1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (b. 1887)

1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball commissioner (b. 1884)

1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan

 
 

1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)

1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)

1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)

1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (b. 1926)

1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)

1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)

1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)

1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion (b. 1913)

1999 - Franjo Tudjman, first President of Croatia (b. 1922)

2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)

2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)

2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)

2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)

2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)

2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)

 

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