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| *[[1705]] - [[Luca Giordano]], Italian artist (b. [[1634]]) | *[[1705]] - [[Luca Giordano]], Italian artist (b. [[1634]]) | ||
| - | *[[1732]] - [[John Horsley]], British archaeologist (b. [[1685]]) | ||
| - | *[[1735]] - [[John Eccles (composer)|John Eccles]], English composer (b. [[1668]]) | ||
| - | *[[1759]] - [[Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange]] (b. [[1709]]) | ||
| - | *[[1777]] - [[Hugh Mercer]], American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. [[1726]]) | ||
| - | *[[1781]] - [[Richard Challoner]], English Catholic prelate (b. [[1691]]) | ||
| - | *[[1817]] - [[Juan Andres]], Spanish Jesuit (b. [[1740]]) | ||
| - | *[[1834]] - [[William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1759]]) | ||
| - | *[[1856]] - [[Ludovit Stur|Ľudovít Štúr]], Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. [[1815]]) | ||
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Isaac Pitman]], British inventor ([[Pitman Shorthand]]) (b. [[1813]]) | ||
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Hiram Walker]], American distiller (b. [[1816]]) | ||
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Hermann Minkowski]], German mathematician (b. [[1864]]) | ||
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Edward Smith (VC)|Edward Smith]], English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. [[1899]]) | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Jan Campert]], Dutch journalist and writer (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Lance C. Wade]], American pilot (b. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Norman Kerry]], American actor (b. [[1894]]) | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Nevil Shute]], English writer (b. [[1899]]) | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams]], Russian writer and feminist (b. [[1869]]) | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Lorraine Hansberry]], American writer (b. [[1936]]) | ||
| *[[1976]] - [[Agatha Christie]], English writer (b. [[1890]]) | *[[1976]] - [[Agatha Christie]], English writer (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| *[[1977]] - [[Henri-Georges Clouzot]], French film director and screenwriter (b. [[1907]]) | *[[1977]] - [[Henri-Georges Clouzot]], French film director and screenwriter (b. [[1907]]) | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Rebop Kwaku Baah]], Nigerian percussionist (b. [[1944]]) | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Nikolai Podgorny]], [[President of the USSR]] (b. [[1903]]) | ||
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Laurence J. Peter]], Canadian-born educator et writer (b. [[1919]]) | ||
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Joachim Nitsche]], German mathematician (b. [[1926]]) | ||
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Charles B. Huggins]], Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1901]]) | ||
| - | * 1997 - [[Jean-Edern Hallier]], French author (b. [[1936]]) | ||
| - | *[[1999]] - [[Betty Lou Gerson]], American voice actress (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| - | * 1999 - [[Doug Wickenheiser]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1961]]) | ||
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Marc Davis]], American animator (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| - | * 2000 - [[Bobby Phills]], American basketball player (b. [[1969]]) | ||
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Affirmed]], American racehorse (b. [[1975]]) | ||
| - | * 2001 - [[William Reddington Hewlett|William Hewlett]], American engineer and businessman (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| - | * 2001 - [[Luiz Bonfá]], Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. [[1922]]) | ||
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Stanley Unwin (comedian)|Stanley Unwin]], South African comedian (b. [[1911]]) | ||
| - | * 2002 - [[Cyrus Vance]], 57th [[U.S. Secretary of State]] (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Dean Amadon]], American ornithologist (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Kinji Fukasaku]], Japanese director (b. [[1930]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Leopoldo Galtieri]], dictator of Argentina (b. [[1926]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Maurice Gibb]], British singer, songwriter, and musician ([[Bee Gees]]) (b. [[1949]]) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1921]]) | ||
| - | * 2004 - [[Randy VanWarmer]], American singer and songwriter (b. [[1955]]) | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Alessia di Matteo]], first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. [[2003]]) | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Amrish Puri]], Indian actor (b. [[1932]]) | ||
| - | * 2005 - [[Edmund S. Valtman]], Estonian-born cartoonist (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| *[[2007]] - [[Alice Coltrane]], American jazz musician (b. [[1937]]) | *[[2007]] - [[Alice Coltrane]], American jazz musician (b. [[1937]]) | ||
| == Notes == | == Notes == | ||
| - | + | *[[1597]] - [[Morton Feldman ]] | |
| - | Henri-Georges Clouzot | + | *[[1597]] - [[Motown Records ]] |
| - | Charles Perrault | + | *[[1597]] - [[Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ]] |
| - | Haruki Murakami | + | *[[1597]] - [[Emmanuel Lévinas ]] |
| - | Morton Feldman | + | *[[1597]] - [[Bob Kaufman ]] |
| - | Jack London | + | *[[1597]] - [[Rolando Alphonso ]] |
| - | François Duquesnoy | + | *[[1597]] - [[Liliana Cavani ]] |
| - | Edmund Burke | + | *[[1597]] - [[Jacques de Baroncelli ]] |
| - | Motown Records | + | *[[1597]] - [[Stephen Gilbert ]] |
| - | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | + | *[[1597]] - [[Marcel Arland ]] |
| - | Jean Delannoy | + | |
| - | Emmanuel Lévinas | + | |
| - | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | + | |
| - | Bob Kaufman | + | |
| - | Luca Giordano | + | |
| - | Rolando Alphonso | + | |
| - | Liliana Cavani | + | |
| - | Jacques de Baroncelli | + | |
| - | Alice Coltrane | + | |
| - | Stephen Gilbert | + | |
| - | Agatha Christie | + | |
| - | Marcel Arland | + | |
| {{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
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Art and culture
- 1592 - Titus Andronicus is first staged at the Rose Theatre.
Births
- 1597 - François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
- 1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
- 1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish writer (d. 1797)
- 1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
- 1908 - Jean Delannoy, French film director
- 1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist
- 1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
- 1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Deaths
- 1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
- 1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
- 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
- 2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
Notes
- 1597 - Morton Feldman
- 1597 - Motown Records
- 1597 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- 1597 - Emmanuel Lévinas
- 1597 - Bob Kaufman
- 1597 - Rolando Alphonso
- 1597 - Liliana Cavani
- 1597 - Jacques de Baroncelli
- 1597 - Stephen Gilbert
- 1597 - Marcel Arland
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