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Deaths
117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
803 - Byzantine Empress Irene
1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
1969 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951))
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1995 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1920)
2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
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