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| *[[1745]] - [[Jonathan Swift]], Irish author (b. [[1667]]) | *[[1745]] - [[Jonathan Swift]], Irish author (b. [[1667]]) | ||
| - | *[[1790]] - [[Lyman Hall]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1724]]) | ||
| - | *[[1813]] - [[Józef Antoni Poniatowski]], Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. [[1763]]) | ||
| - | *[[1842]] - [[Aleksey Koltsov]], Russian poet (b. [[1808]]) | ||
| - | *[[1851]] - [[Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte|Marie Thérèse Charlotte]] (b. [[1778]]) | ||
| - | *[[1889]] - King [[Louis of Portugal]] (b. [[1838]]) | ||
| - | *[[1897]] - [[George Pullman]], American inventor and industrialist (b. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Carl Frederik Tietgen]], Danish financier and industrialist (b. [[1829]]) | ||
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Harold Lockwood]], American actor (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Lu Xun]], Chinese writer (b. [[1881]]) | ||
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson]], New Zealand physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (b. [[1871]]) | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Camille Claudel]], French sculptor (b. [[1864]]) | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], American poet (b. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Isham Jones]], American musician (b. [[1894]]) | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[George Wallace (Australian comedian)|George Wallace]], Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Walt Kelly]], American cartoonist (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Gig Young]], American actor (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Maurice Bishop]], [[Prime Minister of Grenada]] (b. [[1944]]) | ||
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Alfred Rouleau]], French Canadian businessman (b. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Dele Giwa]], Nigerian journalist | ||
| - | * 1986 - [[Samora Machel]], President of [[Mozambique]] (b. [[1933]]) | ||
| *[[1987]] - [[Jacqueline Du Pré]], English cellist (b. [[1945]]) | *[[1987]] - [[Jacqueline Du Pré]], English cellist (b. [[1945]]) | ||
| * 1987 - [[Hermann Lang]], German race car driver (b. [[1909]]) | * 1987 - [[Hermann Lang]], German race car driver (b. [[1909]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 2007 - Un roman sentimental, novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Births
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)*1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
- 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987)
- 1944 - George McCrae, American soul singer
- 1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
Deaths
- 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
- 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
- 1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
- 1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
- 1991 - Jennifer Miller, Scottish Model (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
- 1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936)
- 1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
- 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
- 1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
- 2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
- 2004 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
- 2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
- 2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
Notes
Jonathan Swift
Pierre Alechinsky
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Cesare Lombroso
Harry Alan Towers
Expo '58
Sharon Redd
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Patrick Cowley
Un roman sentimental
John le Carré
Don Cherry
Umberto Boccioni
Auguste and Louis Lumière
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