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| - | * [[672]] - [[Chad of Mercia| Saint Chad]] | ||
| - | *[[1124]] - [[Bořivoj II of Bohemia]] | ||
| - | *[[1218]] - [[Konstantin of Rostov]], Prince of Novgorod (b. [[1186]]) | ||
| - | *[[1250]] - [[Eric XI of Sweden]] (b. [[1216]]) | ||
| - | *[[1461]] - [[Owen Tudor]], Welsh founder of the [[Tudor dynasty]] of England | ||
| *[[1529]] - [[Baldassare Castiglione]], Italian writer (b. [[1478]]) | *[[1529]] - [[Baldassare Castiglione]], Italian writer (b. [[1478]]) | ||
| - | *[[1580]] - [[Bessho Nagaharu]], Japanese retainer (b. [[1558]]) | ||
| - | *[[1594]] - [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina]], Italian composer (b. [[1525]]) | ||
| - | *[[1648]] - [[George Abbot (English writer)|George Abbot]], English writer | ||
| - | *[[1660]] - [[Govert Flinck]], Dutch painter (b. [[1615]]) | ||
| - | * 1660 - [[Gaston, Duke of Orléans]], French politician (b. [[1608]]) | ||
| - | *[[1661]] - [[Lucas Holstenius]], German humanist (b. [[1596]]) | ||
| - | *[[1688]] - [[Abraham Duquesne]], French naval officer (b. [[1610]]) | ||
| - | *[[1704]] - [[Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital]], French mathematician (b. [[1661]]) | ||
| - | *[[1712]] - [[Martin Lister]], English naturalist and physician | ||
| - | *[[1714]] - [[John Sharp]], English [[Archbishop of York]] (b. [[1643]]) | ||
| - | *[[1768]] - [[Robert Smith (mathematician)|Robert Smith]], English mathematician (b. [[1689]]) | ||
| - | *[[1769]] - [[Pope Clement XIII]] (b. [[1693]]) | ||
| - | *[[1802]] - [[Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip]], British statesman (b. [[1713]]) | ||
| - | *[[1804]] - [[George Walton]], Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Archduke Albert (1817-1895)|Archduke Albert]], Austrian general (b. [[1817]]) | ||
| - | *[[1904]] - [[William C. Whitney]], American financier (b. [[1841]]) | ||
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], Russian chemist (b. [[1834]]) | ||
| - | *[[1918]] - [[John L. Sullivan]], American heavyweight boxer (b. [[1858]]) | ||
| - | *[[1922]] - [[William Desmond Taylor]], Irish film director (b. [[1872]]) | ||
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Jaap Eden]], Dutch skater and cyclist (b. [[1873]]) | ||
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Vladimir Sukhomlinov]], Russian general (b. [[1848]]) | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Agha Petros]], Assyrian nationalist leader | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Daniil Kharms]], Russian playwright (b. [[1905]]) | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Carl Friedrich Goerdeler]], German politician (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Bevil Rudd]], [[South Africa]]n athlete (b. [[1894]]) | ||
| - | * 1948 - [[Thomas W. Lamont]], American banker; father or [[Corliss Lamont]]; great-grandfather of [[Ned Lamont]] (b. [[1870]]) | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Constantin Carathéodory]], Greek mathematician (b. [[1873]]) | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Charles Grapewin]], American actor (b. [[1869]]) | ||
| - | * 1956 - [[Pyotr Konchalovsky]], Russian painter (b. [[1876]]) | ||
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Grigory Landsberg]], Russian physicist (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| *[[1969]] - [[Boris Karloff]], English actor (b. [[1887]]) | *[[1969]] - [[Boris Karloff]], English actor (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Lawrence Gray]], American actor (b.[[1898]]) | + | *[[1970]] - [[Bertrand Russell|Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell]], English mathematician, writer and philosopher (b. [[1872]]) |
| - | * 1970 - [[Bertrand Russell|Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell]], English mathematician, writer and philosopher, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1872]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Hendrik Elias]], Belgian politician (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| *[[1979]] - [[Sid Vicious]], English musician ([[Sex Pistols]]) (b. [[1957]]) | *[[1979]] - [[Sid Vicious]], English musician ([[Sex Pistols]]) (b. [[1957]]) | ||
| *[[1980]] - [[William Howard Stein]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1911]]) | *[[1980]] - [[William Howard Stein]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1911]]) | ||
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- 1922 - Ulysses by James Joyce published in Paris
Births
- 1600 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
- 1861 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1949)
- 1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
- 1905 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher (d. 1982)
- 1923 - James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
- 1927 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
Deaths
- 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
- 1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
- 1970 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher (b. 1872)
- 1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)
- 1980 - William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
- 1982 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b 1905)
- 1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
- 1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
- 1988 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French film actor (b. 1929)
- 1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
- 1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
- 1992 - Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Fred Perry, British former tennis player (b. 1909)
- 1995 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
- 1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)
- 1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
- 1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1999 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
- 2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
- 2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
- 2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
- 2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
- 2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
- 2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
- 2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
- 2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
notes
Restif de la Bretonne
Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)
Ulysses (novel)
Sid Vicious
Papin sisters
Havelock Ellis
Boris Karloff
Les XX
Gabriel Naudé
Maurice Tourneur
Jens Jørgen Thorsen
Harold Rosenberg
François Reichenbach
Antti Aarne
Martin Schongauer
Baldassare Castiglione
James Dickey
Anthony Cox
Solomon R. Guggenheim
To Have Done With the Judgment of god
James Joyce
José Guadalupe Posada
James Blood Ulmer
Bertrand Russell
Natalie Clifford Barney
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