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| - | * [[19]] - [[Germanicus]], Roman general (b. [[15 BC]]) | ||
| - | * [[680]] - [[Husayn ibn Ali]], [[Shi'a]] imam, [[Muhammad|Mahomet]]'s grandson (b. [[626]]) | ||
| - | * [[732]] - [[Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi]], Moorish Governor of Andalusia | ||
| - | * [[833]] - [[al-Ma'mun]], Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. [[786]]) | ||
| - | *[[1359]] - King [[Hugh IV of Cyprus]] (b. [[1295]]) | ||
| - | *[[1459]] - [[Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini]], Italian humanist and classicist (b. [[1380]]) | ||
| - | *[[1531]] - [[Huldrych Zwingli]], Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. [[1484]]) | ||
| - | *[[1659]] - [[Abel Tasman]], Dutch explorer (b. [[1603]]) | ||
| - | *[[1674]] - [[Thomas Traherne]], English poet | ||
| - | *[[1691]] - [[Isaac de Benserade]], French poet (b. [[1613]]) | ||
| - | *[[1708]] - [[David Gregory]], Scottish astronomer (b. [[1659]]) | ||
| - | *[[1714]] - [[Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert]], French economist (b. [[1646]]) | ||
| - | *[[1720]] - [[Antoine Coysevox]], French sculptor (b. [[1640]]) | ||
| - | *[[1723]] - [[William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper]], [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of England]] (b. [[1665]]) | ||
| - | *[[1725]] - [[Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil]], Governor-General of New France (b. [[1643]]) | ||
| - | *[[1747]] - [[John Potter (Archbishop)|John Potter]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1674]]) | ||
| - | *[[1759]] - [[Granville Elliott]], British military officer (b. [[1713]]) | ||
| - | *[[1765]] - [[Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset]], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. [[1688]]) | ||
| - | *[[1795]] - [[Francesco Antonio Zaccaria]], Italian theologian and historian (b. [[1714]]) | ||
| - | *[[1806]] - [[Louis Ferdinand of Prussia]], German prince (b. [[1772]]) | ||
| - | *[[1827]] - [[Ugo Foscolo]], Italian writer (b. [[1778]]) | ||
| *[[1837]] - [[Charles Fourier]], French philosopher (b. [[1772]]) | *[[1837]] - [[Charles Fourier]], French philosopher (b. [[1772]]) | ||
| *[[1872]] - [[William H. Seward]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1801]]) | *[[1872]] - [[William H. Seward]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1801]]) | ||
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Births
- 1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
- 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
- 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright
Deaths
- 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
- 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
- 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
- 1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
- 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
- 1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
- 1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
- 1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
- 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
- 1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
- 1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
- 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
- 1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
- 1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
- 1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
- 1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
- 1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
- 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
- 1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
- 1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
- 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
- 1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
- 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
- 1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
- 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
- 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
- 1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
- 1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
- 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
- 2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
- 2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
- 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
- 2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
- 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
- 2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
- 2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- 2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
- 2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
Notes
- Antonio Sant'Elia
- Orson Welles
- Ed Wood, Jr.
- Charles Fourier
- David Gascoyne
- Alberto Giacometti
- Urania (magazine)
- Peter Bradshaw
- George Barbier
- Antoine Watteau
- Wayne C. Booth
- Nora Roberts
- Carrie Bradshaw
- Ludwig von Mises
- Jeanette Dimech
- Harold Pinter
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