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| - | *[[1460]] - [[Guarino da Verona]], Italian humanist and translator (b. [[1370]]) | ||
| - | *[[1510]] - [[Friedrich of Saxony (1473-1510)|Friedrich of Saxony]] (b. [[1473]]) | ||
| - | *[[1542]] - King [[James V of Scotland]] (b. [[1512]]) | ||
| - | *[[1553]] - [[Hanibal Lucić]], Croatian writer (b. [[1485]]) | ||
| - | *[[1591]] - [[Saint John of the Cross]], Spanish friar and poet (b. [[1542]]) | ||
| - | *[[1624]] - [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham]], English statesman (b. [[1536]]) | ||
| - | *[[1651]] - [[Pierre Dupuy]], French scholar (b. [[1582]]) | ||
| - | *[[1713]] - [[Thomas Rymer]], English historian (b. [[1641]]) | ||
| - | *[[1715]] - [[Thomas Tenison]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1636]]) | ||
| - | *[[1735]] - [[Thomas Tanner (bishop)|Thomas Tanner]], English bishop and antiquarian (b. [[1674]]) | ||
| - | *[[1741]] - [[Charles Rollin]], French historian (b. [[1661]]) | ||
| - | *[[1788]] - [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]], German composer (b. [[1714]]) | ||
| - | * 1788 - King [[Charles III of Spain]] (b. [[1716]]) | ||
| - | *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]], first [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1732]]) | ||
| - | *[[1838]] - [[Jean-Olivier Chénier]], French Canadian physician and [[Patriote]] (b. [[1806]]) | ||
| - | *[[1860]] - [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1784]]) | ||
| - | *[[1861]] - [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], consort of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] (b. [[1819]]) | ||
| - | *[[1865]] - [[Johan Georg Forchhammer]], Danish geologist (b. [[1794]]) | ||
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Louis Agassiz]], Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. [[1807]]) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Julia Grant]], wife of [[President of the United States]] [[Ulysses S. Grant]] (b. [[1826]]) | ||
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1842]]) | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Stanley G. Weinbaum]], American science-fiction author (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Stanley Baldwin]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1867]]) | ||
| - | * 1947 - [[Edward Higgins]], General of The Salvation Army (b. [[1864]]) | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Paasikivi|Juho Kusti Paasikivi]], president of Finland (b. [[1870]]) | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Dinah Washington]], American singer (b. [[1924]]) | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[William Bendix]], American actor (b. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Franz Schlegelberger]], German Nazi politician (b. [[1876]]) | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Dick Tiger]], Nigerian-born boxer (b. [[1929]]) | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Salvador de Madariaga]], Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. [[1886]]) | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Vicente Aleixandre]], Spanish writer and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1898]]) | ||
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Catherine Doherty]], social justice activist (b. [[1896]]) | ||
| - | * 1985 - [[Roger Maris]], American baseball player (b. [[1934]]) | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Andrei D. Sakharov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1921]]) | ||
| *[[1990]] - [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (b. [[1921]]) | *[[1990]] - [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (b. [[1921]]) | ||
| *[[1993]] - [[Myrna Loy]], American actress (b. [[1905]]) | *[[1993]] - [[Myrna Loy]], American actress (b. [[1905]]) | ||
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| * 2006 - [[Ahmet Ertegün]], co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. [[1923]]) | * 2006 - [[Ahmet Ertegün]], co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. [[1923]]) | ||
| * 2006 - [[Michael Jonas Evans|Mike Evans]], American actor (b. [[1949]]) | * 2006 - [[Michael Jonas Evans|Mike Evans]], American actor (b. [[1949]]) | ||
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| Spike Jones | Spike Jones | ||
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Art and culture
- 1959 - The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.
- 1979 - Legendary punk rock group The Clash release London Calling in the UK, a landmark album in rock music.
Births
- 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
- 1866 - Roger Fry, British artist and art critic (d. 1934)
- 1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
- 1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
- 1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
- 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
- 1946 - Jane Birkin, British-born actress
Deaths
- 1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
- 1996 - Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (b. 1928)
- 1997 - Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
- 1997 - Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
- 1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
- 2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
- 2005 - Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, American author (b. 1931)
- 2006 - Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938)
- 2006 - Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
- 2006 - Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
Notes
Spike Jones
Xul Solar
Paul Éluard
Gerard Reve
Myrna Loy
Shirley Jackson
Théo van Rysselberghe
Charles Seeger
Copi
Jane Birkin
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Gustav Machatý
Stanley Spencer
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