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| - | * [[869]] - [[Lothair II of Lotharingia]] (b. [[825]]) | ||
| - | *[[1445]] - [[Oswald von Wolkenstein]], Austrian composer | ||
| - | *[[1553]] - [[Girolamo Fracastoro]], Italian physician (b. [[1478]]) | ||
| - | *[[1555]] - [[Oronce Finé]], French mathematician (b. [[1494]]) | ||
| - | *[[1588]] - [[Alonso Sánchez Coello]], Spanish painter | ||
| - | *[[1604]] - [[Horio Tadauji]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1578]]) | ||
| - | *[[1631]] - [[Konstantinas Sirvydas]], Lithuanian lexicographer (b. [[1579]]) | ||
| - | *[[1684]] - [[George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer]] (b. [[1622]]) | ||
| - | *[[1759]] - [[Carl Heinrich Graun]], German composer (b. [[1704]]) | ||
| - | *[[1827]] - [[George Canning]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1770]]) | ||
| - | *[[1828]] - [[Carl Peter Thunberg]], Swedish naturalist (b. [[1743]]) | ||
| - | *[[1879]] - [[Immanuel Hermann Fichte]], German philosopher (b. [[1797]]) | ||
| - | *[[1887]] - [[Alexander William Doniphan]], American lawyer and soldier (b. [[1808]]) | ||
| *[[1897]] - [[Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss art historian (b. [[1818]]) | *[[1897]] - [[Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss art historian (b. [[1818]]) | ||
| *[[1898]] - [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (b. [[1824]]) | *[[1898]] - [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (b. [[1824]]) | ||
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| * 2005 - [[Ilse Werner]], German actress (b. [[1921]]) | * 2005 - [[Ilse Werner]], German actress (b. [[1921]]) | ||
| * 2005 - [[Ahmed Deedat]], Islamic scholar (b. [[1918]]) | * 2005 - [[Ahmed Deedat]], Islamic scholar (b. [[1918]]) | ||
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Art and culture
Births
- 1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
- 1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
Deaths
- 1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
- 1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
- 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
- 1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
- 1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
- 1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
- 1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
- 1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1944 - Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder, killed in action, Normandy. (b. 1914)
- 1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
- 1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
- 1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and nazi physician (b. 1896)
- 1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
- 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
- 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
- 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
- 1982 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
- 1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
- 1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1988 - Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
- 1988 - Ramón Valdés, Brazilian actor (b. 1923)
- 1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death
- 1996 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)
- 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2004 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
- 2005 - Gene Mauch, American athlete (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
- 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
Notes
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