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| *[[1492]] - [[Piero della Francesca]], Italian painter | *[[1492]] - [[Piero della Francesca]], Italian painter | ||
| - | *[[1565]] - [[Jean Ribault]], French explorer and colonizer (b. [[1520]]) | ||
| - | *[[1576]] - [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1527]]) | ||
| - | *[[1590]] - [[Kano Eitoku]], Japanese painter (b. [[1543]]) | ||
| - | *[[1600]] - [[Luis Molina]], Spanish Jesuit (b. [[1535]]) | ||
| - | *[[1632]] - [[Kutsuki Mototsuna]], Japanese samurai commander (b. [[1549]]) | ||
| - | *[[1646]] - [[François de Bassompierre]], Marshal of France (b. [[1579]]) | ||
| - | *[[1678]] - [[Edmund Berry Godfrey]], English magistrate (b. [[1621]]) | ||
| - | *[[1679]] - [[William Gurnall]], English writer (b. [[1617]]) | ||
| - | *[[1685]] - [[Christoph Ignaz Abele]], Austrian jurist (b. [[1628]]) | ||
| - | *[[1730]] - King [[Frederick IV of Denmark]] (b. [[1671]]) | ||
| - | *[[1758]] - [[Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth]], British field marshal (b. [[1680]]) | ||
| - | *[[1845]] - [[Elizabeth Fry]], British social reformer and philanthropist (b. [[1780]]) | ||
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Robert E. Lee]], American Confederate general (b. [[1807]]) | ||
| *[[1875]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]], French sculptor and painter (b. [[1827]]) | *[[1875]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]], French sculptor and painter (b. [[1827]]) | ||
| *[[1896]] - [[Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs]], Danish nobleman and politician (b. [[1817]]) | *[[1896]] - [[Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs]], Danish nobleman and politician (b. [[1817]]) | ||
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Births
- 1875 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist and author (d. 1947)
- 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
Deaths
- 1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
- 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
- 1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
- 1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
- 1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
- 1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
- 1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
- 1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883)
- 1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
- 1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
- 1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
- 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898)
- 1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
- 1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
- 1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
- 1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
- 1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1893)
- 1971 - Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935)
- 1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (b. 1958)
- 1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
- 1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
- 1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
- 1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953)
- 1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
- 1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
- 1989 - Carmen Cavallaro, American popular pianist (b. 1913)
- 1989 - Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (b. 1920)
- 1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
- 1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
- 1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
- 1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
- 1996 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
- 1996 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
- 1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
- 1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
- 1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
- 2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
- 2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
- 2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
- 2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
- 2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
- 2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
- 2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
Notes
- Aurora Rümelin
- Carlos the Jackal
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Piero della Francesca
- Un cadavre
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky
- Brigitte Lahaie
* Aleister Crowley * Anatole France * James Crumley
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