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| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| + | *[[1800]] - [[ Jean-Jacques Ampère]], French writer and translator (d. [[1864]]) | ||
| + | *[[1848 ]] - [[ Marcellus Emants]], Dutch writer. (d. [[1923]]) | ||
| *[[1880]] - [[Radclyffe Hall]], British author (d. [[1943]]) | *[[1880]] - [[Radclyffe Hall]], British author (d. [[1943]]) | ||
| *[[1881]] - [[Cecil B. DeMille]], American director (d. [[1959]]) | *[[1881]] - [[Cecil B. DeMille]], American director (d. [[1959]]) | ||
| *[[1912]] - [[Samuel Fuller]], American film director (d. [[1997]]) | *[[1912]] - [[Samuel Fuller]], American film director (d. [[1997]]) | ||
| + | *[[1940]] - [[Tony Allen (musician)|Tony Allen]], Nigerian musician | ||
| + | *[[1950]] - [[August Darnell]], Canadian musician | ||
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| *[[30 BC]] - [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]] (b. [[69 BC]]) | *[[30 BC]] - [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]] (b. [[69 BC]]) | ||
| - | * [[875]] - [[Louis II Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[825]]) | ||
| - | *[[1424]] - [[Yongle]], [[Emperor of China]] (b. [[1460]]) | ||
| - | *[[1484]] - [[George of Trebizond]], Greek philosopher (b. [[1395]]) | ||
| - | * 1484 - [[Pope Sixtus IV]] (b. [[1414]]) | ||
| - | *[[1512]] - [[Alessandro Achillini]], Italian philosopher (b. [[1463]]) | ||
| - | *[[1577]] - [[Thomas Smith (diplomat)|Thomas Smith]], English diplomat and scholar (b. [[1513]]) | ||
| - | *[[1588]] - [[Alfonso Ferrabosco (I)]], Italian composer (b. [[1543]]) | ||
| - | *[[1612]] - [[Giovanni Gabrieli]], Italian composer | ||
| - | *[[1633]] - [[Jacopo Peri]], Italian composer (b. [[1561]]) | ||
| - | *[[1638]] - [[Johannes Althusius]], German writer (b. [[1557]]) | ||
| - | *[[1648]] - [[Ibrahim I]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1615]]) | ||
| - | *[[1674]] - [[Philippe de Champaigne]], French painter (b. [[1602]]) | ||
| - | *[[1689]] - [[Pope Innocent XI]] (b. [[1611]]) | ||
| - | *[[1778]] - [[Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]], British general and politician (b. [[1714]]) | ||
| - | *[[1809]] - [[Mikhail Kamensky]], Russian field marshal (b. [[1738]]) | ||
| - | *[[1810]] - [[Etienne Louis Geoffroy]], French pharmacist and entomologist (b. [[1725]]) | ||
| - | *[[1822]] - [[Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh]], English politician and statesman (b. [[1769]]) | ||
| *[[1827]] - [[William Blake]], English poet and artist (b. [[1757]]) | *[[1827]] - [[William Blake]], English poet and artist (b. [[1757]]) | ||
| - | *[[1848]] - [[George Stephenson]], British locomotive designer (b. [[1781]]) | ||
| - | *[[1857]] - [[Rufus Wilmot Griswold]], American editor and critic (b. [[1815]]) | ||
| - | *[[1861]] - [[Eliphalet Remington]], American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. [[1793]]) | ||
| - | *[[1864]] - [[Sakuma Shozan|Sakuma Shōzan]], Japanese reformer (b. [[1811]]) | ||
| - | *[[1865]] - [[William Jackson Hooker]], English botanist (b. [[1785]]) | ||
| - | *[[1891]] - [[James Russell Lowell]], American poet and essayist (b. [[1819]]) | ||
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Thomas Chamberlain]], officer of the 20th Maine at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Wilhelm Steinitz]], Austrian chess player (b. [[1836]]) | ||
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld]], Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. [[1832]]) | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - [[John Philip Holland]], Irish submarine designer (b. [[1840]]) | ||
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Anna Held]], Polish-born actress and singer (b. [[1872]]) | ||
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Arthur Griffith]], [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1871]]) | ||
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Leoš Janáček]], Czech composer (b. [[1854]]) | ||
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Hendrik Petrus Berlage]], Dutch architect (b. [[1856]]) | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Friedrich Schottky]], German mathematician (b. [[1851]]) | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Bobby Peel]], English cricketer (b. [[1857]]) | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Harry Brearley]], English inventor (b. [[1871]]) | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[David Bergelson]], Yiddish language writer (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| *[[1955]] - [[Thomas Mann]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1875]]) | *[[1955]] - [[Thomas Mann]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1875]]) | ||
| - | * 1955 - [[James B. Sumner]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Mike O'Neill (baseball player)|Mike O'Neill]], Irish-born American baseball player (b. [[1877]]) | ||
| *[[1964]] - [[Ian Fleming]], English novelist ([[James Bond]]) (b. [[1908]]) | *[[1964]] - [[Ian Fleming]], English novelist ([[James Bond]]) (b. [[1908]]) | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Walter Rudolf Hess]], Swiss physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1881]]) | + | *[[1988]] - [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], Haitian-American artist (b. [[1960]])) |
| - | * 1973 - [[Karl Ziegler]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1898]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Ernst Boris Chain]], German-born biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1906]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Henry Fonda]], American actor (b. [[1905]]) | + | |
| - | * 1982 - [[Salvador Sanchez]], Mexican boxer (b. [[1959]]) | + | |
| - | * 1982 - [[Varlam Shalamov]], Russian writer (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Kyu Sakamoto]], Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. [[1941]]) | + | |
| - | * 1985 - [[Manfred Winkelhock]], German race car driver (b. [[1951]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1988]] - [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], Haitian-American artist (b. [[1960]]) | + | |
| - | * 1988 - [[Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja]], religious Guru from India (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] - [[William Shockley]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | * 1989 - [[Samuel Okwaraji]], Nigerian footballer (b. [[1964]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[B. Kliban]], American cartoonist (b. [[1935]]) | + | |
| - | * 1990 - [[Dorothy Mackaill]], British-born American actress (b. [[1903]]) | + | |
| *[[1992]] - [[John Cage]], American composer (b. [[1912]]) | *[[1992]] - [[John Cage]], American composer (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Robert Gravel]], French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. [[1945]]) | + | *[[2001]] - [[ Pierre Klossowski]], French writer (b. [[1905]]) |
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Mark Gruenwald]], American comic book writer and editor (b. [[1953]]) | + | *[[2003]] - [[Walter Ong]] American philologist (b. [[1912]]). |
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Luther Allison]], American musician (b. [[1939]]) | + | *[[2005]] - [[Teruo Ishii]], Japanese film director (b. [[1924]]) |
| - | *[[1999]] - [[Jean Drapeau]], Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. [[1916]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Loretta Young]], American actress (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Enos Slaughter]], American baseball player (b. [[1916]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] - Sir [[Godfrey Hounsfield]], English electrical engineer and inventor, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Peter Woodthorpe]], British actor (b. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2005]] - [[John Loder]], co-founder of the anarcho-punk band [[CRASS]] (b. [[1946]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] - [[Merv Griffin]], American television host and game show creator (b. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Mike Wieringo]], American comic book artist (b. [[1962]]) | + | |
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| - | == Notes == | + | |
| - | *[[Cecil B. DeMille]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Marcellus Emants]] | + | |
| - | *[[ John Cage]] | + | |
| - | *[[ William Blake]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Thomas Mann]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Pierre Klossowski]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Samuel Fuller]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Jean-Michel Basquiat]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Jean-Jacques Ampère]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Radclyffe Hall]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Teruo Ishii]] | + | |
| - | *[[ Tony Allen (musician) ]] | + | |
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- 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
Births
- 1800 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French writer and translator (d. 1864)
- 1848 - Marcellus Emants, Dutch writer. (d. 1923)
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
- 1912 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
- 1940 - Tony Allen, Nigerian musician
- 1950 - August Darnell, Canadian musician
Deaths
- 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960))
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
- 2001 - Pierre Klossowski, French writer (b. 1905)
- 2003 - Walter Ong American philologist (b. 1912).
- 2005 - Teruo Ishii, Japanese film director (b. 1924)
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