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| *[[1948]] - [[Donna Summer]], American singer | *[[1948]] - [[Donna Summer]], American singer | ||
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[192]] - [[Commodus]], [[Roman Emperors|Roman Emperor]] (b. [[161]]) | ||
| - | * [[335]] - [[Pope Silvester I|St. Silvester]], [[Pope]] | ||
| - | *[[1164]] - Margrave [[Ottokar III of Styria]] (b. [[1124]]) | ||
| - | *[[1194]] - Duke [[Leopold V of Austria (Babenberg)|Leopold V of Austria]] (killed at a tournament) (b. [[1157]]) | ||
| - | *[[1297]] - [[Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford]], English soldier (b. [[1249]]) | ||
| - | *[[1302]] - [[Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. [[1238]]) | ||
| - | *[[1384]] - [[John Wycliffe]], English theologian and Bible translator | ||
| - | *[[1424]] - [[Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter]], English military leader | ||
| - | *[[1460]] - [[Edmund, Earl of Rutland]], brother of Kings [[Edward IV of England]] and [[Richard III of England]] (executed) (b. [[1443]]) | ||
| - | * 1460 - [[Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury]], English politician (b. [[1400]]) | ||
| - | *[[1510]] - [[Bianca Maria Sforza]], wife of [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1472]]) | ||
| - | *[[1535]] - [[William Skeffington]], Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. [[1465]]) | ||
| - | *[[1568]] - [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1493]]) | ||
| - | *[[1575]] - [[Pierino Belli]], Italian soldier and jurist (b. [[1502]]) | ||
| - | *[[1583]] - [[Thomas Erastus]], Swiss theologian (b. [[1524]]) | ||
| - | *[[1610]] - [[Ludolph van Ceulen]], German mathematician (b. [[1540]]) | ||
| - | *[[1650]] - [[Dorgon]], Chinese emperor (b. [[1612]]) | ||
| - | *[[1673]] - [[Oliver St John]], English statesman and judge | ||
| - | *[[1679]] - [[Giovanni Alfonso Borelli]], Italian physiologist and physicist (b. [[1608]]) | ||
| - | *[[1691]] - [[Dudley North]], English economist (b. [[1641]]) | ||
| - | *[[1719]] - [[John Flamsteed]], English astronomer (b. [[1646]]) | ||
| - | *[[1742]] - [[Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine]] (b. [[1661]]) | ||
| - | *[[1799]] - [[Jean-François Marmontel]], French historian and writer (b. [[1723]]) | ||
| - | *[[1872]] - [[Aleksis Kivi]], Finnish author (b. [[1834]]) | ||
| *[[1877]] - [[Gustave Courbet]], French painter (b. [[1819]]) | *[[1877]] - [[Gustave Courbet]], French painter (b. [[1819]]) | ||
| - | *[[1888]] - [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]], German rabbi (b. [[1808]]) | ||
| - | *[[1889]] - [[Ion Creangă]], Romanian writer (b. [[1837]] or [[1839]]) | ||
| - | *[[1894]] - [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]], Dutch mathematician (b. [[1856]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Alexander Popov (physicist)|Alexander Popov]], Russian physicist (b. [[1859]]) | ||
| - | *[[1910]] - [[John Bevins Moisant|John Moisant]], American aviator (b. [[1868]]) | ||
| - | * 1910 - [[Archibald Hoxsey|Arch Hoxsey]], American aviator (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| - | *[[1921]] - [[Boies Penrose]], U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. [[1860]]) | ||
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Miguel de Unamuno]], Spanish writer and philosopher (b. [[1864]]) | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Malcolm Campbell]], English race car driver (b. [[1885]]) | ||
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Albert Plesman]], Dutch aviation pioneer (b. [[1889]]) | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Ólafur Thors]], [[Prime Minister of Iceland]] (b. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | * 1964 - [[Bobby Byrne]], baseball player (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], American clarinetist (b. [[1900]]) | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Pete Duel]] American actor (b. [[1940]]) | ||
| - | * 1971 - [[Marin Sais]], American actress (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| - | * 1971 - [[Vikram Sarabhai]], Indian physicist (b. [[1919]]) | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Roberto Clemente]], Puerto Rican baseball player (b. [[1934]]) | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah]], ruler of Kuwait (b. [[1924]]) | ||
| *[[1980]] - [[Marshall McLuhan]], Canadian writer (b. [[1911]]) | *[[1980]] - [[Marshall McLuhan]], Canadian writer (b. [[1911]]) | ||
| * 1980 - [[Raoul Walsh]], American film director (b. [[1887]]) | * 1980 - [[Raoul Walsh]], American film director (b. [[1887]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
- 1687 - The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
Births
- 1514 - Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
- 1869 - Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)
- 1894 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)
- 1924 - Taylor Mead, American actor
- 1928 - Siné, French cartoonist
- 1948 - Donna Summer, American singer
Deaths
- 1877 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819)
- 1980 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (b. 1911)
- 1980 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
- 1985 - Rick Nelson, American singer (b. 1940)
- 1986 - Lloyd Haynes, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1990 - Vasili Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)
- 1990 - George Allen, American football coach
- 1993 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (b. 1939)
- 1993 - Brandon Teena Transsexual murdered
- 1994 - Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (b. 1914)
- 1997 - Floyd Cramer, American musician (b. 1933)
- 1997 - Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1997 - Michael Kennedy, American politician (b. 1958)
- 1999 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Alan Cranston, American politician (b. 1914)
- 2000 - José Greco, Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
- 2001 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2002 - Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist (Cutting Crew) (b. 1951)
- 2003 - Arthur R. von Hippel German-born physicist (b. 1898)
- 2004 - Gerard Debreu, French-born economist, Bank of Sweden Prize laureate (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Phillip Whitehead, British politician (b. 1937)
- 2005 - Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (b. 1932)
- 2006 - George Sisler, Jr., baseball executive (b. 1917)
Notes
List of authors banned during the Third Reich
Phil Andros
Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis
Marshall McLuhan
Joe Dallesandro
Cinema of Sweden
Henri Matisse
Joseph Vacher
Taylor Mead
Siné
Paul Bilhaud
Robert Melville (art critic)
Giovanni Boldini
Francesco Alberoni
Ferdinand Springer
Olympe de Gouges
Gustave Courbet
Charles Garnier
Richard Gordon (film producer)
Jacob Israël de Haan
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