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Deaths

62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)

68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)

373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist

597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary, patron saint of Ireland (b. 521)

630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia

1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)

1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)

1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)

1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)

1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)

1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)

1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)

 
 

1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)

1892 - William Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)

1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)

1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)

1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)

1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)

1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)

1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1981 - Allen Ludden, TV Game Show Host

1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)

1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)

 
 

1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)

2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)

2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)

 

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