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| + | *[[1176]] – [[Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke]], English-Irish military leader (b. 1130) | ||
| + | *[[1314]] – [[Pope Clement V]] (b. 1264) | ||
| + | *[[1517]] – [[Bogdan III the One-Eyed]], Romanian son of [[Stephen III of Moldavia]] (b. 1470) | ||
| + | *[[1521]] – [[Zhengde Emperor]] of China (b. 1491) | ||
| + | *[[1534]] – [[Elizabeth Barton]], English nun (b. 1506) | ||
| + | *[[1558]] – [[Johannes Bugenhagen]], German priest and theologian (b. 1485) | ||
| + | *[[1643]] – [[Christoph Demantius]], German composer and poet (b. 1567) | ||
| + | *[[1703]] – [[Lancelot Addison]], English educator (b. 1632) | ||
| + | *[[1769]] – [[Chief Pontiac]], American tribal leader (b. 1720) | ||
| + | *[[1831]] – [[John Abernethy (surgeon)|John Abernethy]], English surgeon (b. 1764) | ||
| + | *[[1873]] – [[William Tite]], English architect, designed the [[Royal Exchange, London|Royal Exchange]] (b. 1798) | ||
| + | *[[1874]] – [[Alexander H. Bailey]], American politician (b. 1817) | ||
| + | *[[1887]] – [[Muhammad Sharif Pasha]], Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] (b. 1826) | ||
| + | *[[1899]] – [[Joseph Wolf]], German illustrator (b. 1820) | ||
| + | *[[1902]] – [[Joaquim de Sousa Andrade]], Brazilian poet (b. 1833) | ||
| + | *[[1912]] – [[Bram Stoker]], Irish author (b. 1847) | ||
| + | *[[1918]] – [[Karl Ferdinand Braun]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1850) | ||
| + | *[[1927]] – [[Enrique Simonet]], Spanish painter (b. 1866) | ||
| + | *[[1929]] – [[Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929)|Prince Henry of Prussia]] (b. 1862) | ||
| + | *[[1931]] – [[Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet]], Scottish fencer and businessman (b. 1862) | ||
| + | *[[1932]] – [[Giuseppe Peano]], Italian mathematician (b. 1858) | ||
| + | *[[1935]] – [[Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon]], English fashion designer (b. 1863) | ||
| + | * 1935 – [[John Cameron (footballer born 1872)|John Cameron]], Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1872) | ||
| + | *[[1942]] – [[Jüri Jaakson]], Estonian politician and businessman (b. 1870) | ||
| + | *[[1944]] – [[Elmer Gedeon]], American baseball player and pilot (b. 1917) | ||
| + | *[[1945]] – [[Erwin Bumke]], German jurist (b. 1874) | ||
| + | *[[1947]] – [[Christian X of Denmark]] (b. 1870) | ||
| + | *[[1951]] – [[Ivanoe Bonomi]], Italian politician, 25th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. 1873) | ||
| + | *[[1964]] – [[Eddie Dyer]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1899) | ||
| + | *[[1967]] – [[Léo-Paul Desrosiers]], Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896) | ||
| + | *[[1968]] – [[Rudolph Dirks]], German-American illustrator (b. 1877) | ||
| + | *[[1969]] – [[Vjekoslav Luburić]], Croatian general (b. 1911) | ||
| + | *[[1980]] – [[M. Canagaratnam]], Sri Lankan Tamil politician (b. 1924) | ||
| + | *[[1982]] – [[Archibald MacLeish]], American poet (b. 1892) | ||
| + | *[[1986]] – [[Sibte Hassan]], Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916) | ||
| + | *[[1989]] – [[Doru Davidovici]], Romanian pilot (b. 1945) | ||
| + | *[[1990]] – [[Arnold Alas]], Estonian landscape architect and artist (b. 1911) | ||
| + | *[[1991]] – [[Steve Marriott]], English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ([[Small Faces|The Small Faces]] and [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie]]) (b. 1947) | ||
| + | * 1991 – [[Don Siegel]], American director and producer (b. 1912) | ||
| + | *[[1992]] – [[Benny Hill]], English comedian and actor (b. 1924) | ||
| + | * 1992 – [[Marcel Albers]], Dutch motor racing driver (b. 1967) | ||
| + | *[[1993]] – [[Cantinflas]], Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911) | ||
| + | * 1993 – [[Ben Platt (actor)]], American actor | ||
| + | *[[1994]] – [[Jean Carmet]], French actor (b. 1920) | ||
| + | *[[1996]] – [[Trần Văn Trà]], Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918) | ||
| + | * 1996 – [[Christopher Robin Milne]], English bookseller (b. 1920) | ||
| + | *[[1999]] – Casualties of the [[Columbine High School massacre]]: | ||
| + | ** [[Cassie Bernall]], American student (b. 1981) | ||
| + | ** [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold|Eric Harris]], American student and murderer (b. 1981) | ||
| + | ** [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold|Dylan Klebold]], American student and murderer (b. 1981) | ||
| + | ** [[Rachel Scott]], American student, inspired the [[Rachel's Challenge]] (b. 1981) | ||
| + | ** [[William David Sanders]], American educator (b. 1951) | ||
| + | * 1999 – [[Rick Rude]], American wrestler (b. 1958) | ||
| + | * 1999 – [[Señor Wences]], Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896) | ||
| + | *[[2001]] – [[Giuseppe Sinopoli]], Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946) | ||
| + | *[[2002]] – [[Alan Dale (singer)|Alan Dale]], American singer (b. 1925) | ||
| + | * 2002 – [[Pierre Rapsat]], Belgian singer-songwriter (b. 1948) | ||
| + | *[[2003]] – [[Ruth Hale (playwright and actress)|Ruth Hale]], American playwright and actress (b. 1908) | ||
| + | * 2003 – [[Daijiro Kato]], Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976) | ||
| + | * 2003 – [[Bernard Katz]], German biophysicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1911) | ||
| + | *[[2005]] – [[Zygfryd Blaut]], Polish footballer (b. 1943) | ||
| + | * 2005 – [[Ea Jansen]], Estonian historian (b. 1921) | ||
| + | * 2005 – [[Fumio Niwa]], Japanese author(b. 1904) | ||
| + | *[[2007]] – [[Andrew Hill]], American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931) | ||
| + | * 2007 – [[Michael Fu Tieshan]], Chinese bishop (b. 1931) | ||
| + | * 2007 – [[Fred Fish]], American computer programmer (b. 1952) | ||
| + | *[[2008]] – [[VL Mike]], American rapper ([[Chopper City Boyz]]) (b. 1976) | ||
| + | * 2008 – [[Monica Lovinescu]], Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923) | ||
| + | *[[2009]] – [[Beata Asimakopoulou]], Greek actress (b. 1932) | ||
| + | *[[2010]] – [[Dorothy Height]], American educator and activist (b. 1912) | ||
| + | *[[2011]] – [[Tim Hetherington]], English-American photographer and journalist (b. 1970) | ||
| + | * 2011 – [[Chris Hondros]], American photographer (b. 1970) | ||
| + | * 2011 – [[Gerard Smith (musician)|Gerard Smith]], American guitarist ([[TV on the Radio]]) (b. 1974) | ||
| + | *[[2012]] – [[Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro]], Mexican general (b. 1942) | ||
| + | * 2012 – [[Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke]], English politician (b. 1922) | ||
| + | * 2012 – [[Matt Branam]], American academic (b. 1954) | ||
| + | * 2012 – [[George Cowan]], American chemist, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1920) | ||
| + | * 2012 – [[Bert Weedon]], English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920) | ||
| + | *[[2013]] – [[Günseli Başar]], Turkish model, [[Miss Europe|Miss Europe 1952]] (b. 1932) | ||
| + | * 2013 – [[Glenn Cannon]], American actor and director (b. 1932) | ||
| + | * 2013 – [[Peter Kane Dufault]], American poet (b. 1923) | ||
| + | * 2013 – [[Huang Wenyong]], Malaysia-Singaporean actor (b. 1952) | ||
| + | * 2013 – [[Jocasta Innes]], Chinese-English journalist and author (b. 1934) | ||
| + | * 2013 – [[Rick Mather]], American-English architect (b. 1937) | ||
| + | * 2013 – [[Howard Phillips (politician)|Howard Phillips]], American politician (b. 1941) | ||
| + | * 2013 – [[Nosher Powell]], English actor and stuntman (b. 1928) | ||
| + | *[[2014]] – [[Rubin Carter]], American boxer (b. 1937) | ||
| + | * 2014 – [[Neville Wran]], Australian politician (b. 1926) | ||
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Events
Births
- 1492 - Pietro Aretino
- 1807 - Aloysius Bertrand introduced the prose poem into French literature and inspired Symbolist poets.
- 1879 - Paul Poiret, French a couturier based in Paris before the First World War and during the Belle Epoque.
- 1889 - Adolf Hitler, failed artist and leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
- 1901 - Michel Leiris, French surrealist writer and ethnographer.
- 1914 - Karel Thole, Dutch painter and illustrator.
Deaths
Deaths
- 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish military leader (b. 1130)
- 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
- 1517 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed, Romanian son of Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1470)
- 1521 – Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
- 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun (b. 1506)
- 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German priest and theologian (b. 1485)
- 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer and poet (b. 1567)
- 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English educator (b. 1632)
- 1769 – Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
- 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
- 1873 – William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
- 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
- 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
- 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German illustrator (b. 1820)
- 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet (b. 1833)
- 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
- 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
- 1927 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (b. 1866)
- 1929 – Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1862)
- 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer and businessman (b. 1862)
- 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
- 1935 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (b. 1863)
- 1935 – John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1872)
- 1942 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian politician and businessman (b. 1870)
- 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (b. 1917)
- 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
- 1947 – Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
- 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1899)
- 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
- 1968 – Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
- 1969 – Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian general (b. 1911)
- 1980 – M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (b. 1924)
- 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet (b. 1892)
- 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
- 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian pilot (b. 1945)
- 1990 – Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (b. 1911)
- 1991 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Small Faces and Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
- 1991 – Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Benny Hill, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
- 1992 – Marcel Albers, Dutch motor racing driver (b. 1967)
- 1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
- 1993 – Ben Platt (actor), American actor
- 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
- 1996 – Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
- 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne, English bookseller (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Casualties of the Columbine High School massacre:
- Cassie Bernall, American student (b. 1981)
- Eric Harris, American student and murderer (b. 1981)
- Dylan Klebold, American student and murderer (b. 1981)
- Rachel Scott, American student, inspired the Rachel's Challenge (b. 1981)
- William David Sanders, American educator (b. 1951)
- 1999 – Rick Rude, American wrestler (b. 1958)
- 1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
- 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
- 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
- 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
- 2003 – Bernard Katz, German biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (b. 1943)
- 2005 – Ea Jansen, Estonian historian (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese author(b. 1904)
- 2007 – Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Fred Fish, American computer programmer (b. 1952)
- 2008 – VL Mike, American rapper (Chopper City Boyz) (b. 1976)
- 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Beata Asimakopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (b. 1912)
- 2011 – Tim Hetherington, English-American photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Gerard Smith, American guitarist (TV on the Radio) (b. 1974)
- 2012 – Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, Mexican general (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, English politician (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Matt Branam, American academic (b. 1954)
- 2012 – George Cowan, American chemist, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Günseli Başar, Turkish model, Miss Europe 1952 (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Glenn Cannon, American actor and director (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Peter Kane Dufault, American poet (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Huang Wenyong, Malaysia-Singaporean actor (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Rick Mather, American-English architect (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Howard Phillips, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2013 – Nosher Powell, English actor and stuntman (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Rubin Carter, American boxer (b. 1937)
- 2014 – Neville Wran, Australian politician (b. 1926)
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