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| *[[1889]] - [[Robert Browning]], British poet (b. [[1812]]) | *[[1889]] - [[Robert Browning]], British poet (b. [[1812]]) | ||
| - | * 1889 - [[Viktor Bunyakovsky]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1804]]) | ||
| - | *[[1894]] - Sir [[John Sparrow David Thompson|John Thompson]], fourth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1845]]) | ||
| - | *[[1913]] - Emperor [[Menelek II of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1844]]) | ||
| *[[1923]] - [[Raymond Radiguet]], French author (b. [[1903]]) | *[[1923]] - [[Raymond Radiguet]], French author (b. [[1903]]) | ||
| *[[1926]] - [[Jean Richepin]], French poet (b. [[1849]]) | *[[1926]] - [[Jean Richepin]], French poet (b. [[1849]]) | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Charles Goodnight]], American cattle baron (b. [[1836]]) | ||
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Douglas Fairbanks]], American actor (b. [[1883]]) | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Cesar Basa]], [[Philippine Air Force]] and [[World War II]] hero (b. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Mildred Bailey]], American jazz singer (b. [[1907]]) | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Bedrich Hrozny|Bedřich Hrozný]], Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak orientalist and linguist (b. [[1879]]) | ||
| *[[1963]] - [[Yasujiro Ozu]], Japanese film director (b. [[1903]]) | *[[1963]] - [[Yasujiro Ozu]], Japanese film director (b. [[1903]]) | ||
| *[[1968]] - [[Tallulah Bankhead]], American actress (b. [[1902]]) | *[[1968]] - [[Tallulah Bankhead]], American actress (b. [[1902]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1098 - First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan.
Births
- 1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
- 1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
- 1893 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1902 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
- 1903 - Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
- 1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
- 1929 - John Osborne, British dramatist (d. 1994)
- 1940 - Dionne Warwick, American singer
- 1943 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999)
Deaths
- 1889 - Robert Browning, British poet (b. 1812)
- 1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
- 1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849)
- 1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
- 1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
- 1971 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (b. 1891)
- 1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
- 1977 - Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
- 1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
- 1985 - Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
- 1987 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
- 1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian esssayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
- 1993 - József Antall, Hungarian politician (b. 1932)
- 1994 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
- 1996 - Vance Packard, American author (b. 1914)
- 1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
- 1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
- 1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
- 2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
- 2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
- 2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
- 2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
- 2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
- 2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
- 2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
- 2005 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
- 2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
- 2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
- 2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (b. 1930)
- 2006 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
Births
Deaths
Notes
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Joseph Heller
- Gustave Flaubert
- Edvard Munch
- Raymond Radiguet
- Frank Sinatra
- André Balland
* Yasujiro Ozu * Christian Dotremont
- Robert Browning
- Manu Dibango
- Jean Richepin
- John Osborne
- Tallulah Bankhead
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