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Deaths

* 978 – King Edward the Martyr of England

* 1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)

* 1314 – Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244)

* 1583 – King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)

* 1584 – Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)

* 1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)

* 1689 – John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)

* 1696 – Robert Charnock, English conspirator

* 1715 – William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun. Scottish patriot politician and landowner. (b. 1654)

* 1745 – Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)

* 1746 – Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)

* 1768 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)

* 1781 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)

* 1823 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753)

* 1835 – Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)

* 1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)

* 1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)

* 1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)

* 1913 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)

* 1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (b. 1847)

* 1933 – Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian prince, mountaineer and explorer (b. 1873)

* 1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece

* 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)

* 1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)

* 1945 – William Grover-Williams, British racing driver

* 1947 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)

* 1962 – Walter W. Bacon, American politician (b. 1880)

* 1963 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)

* 1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)

* 1965 – King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)

* 1965 – Jack Quinlan, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)

* 1969 – Barbara Bates, American film actress (b. 1925)

* 1973 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born American opera singer (b. 1890)

* 1975 – Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)

* 1976 – Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)

* 1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician (b. 1938)

* 1977 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)

* 1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)

* 1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)

* 1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)

* 1983 – King Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904)

* 1983 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (b. 1910)

* 1984 – Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)

* 1986 – Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)

* 1988 – Billy bumerfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)

* 1990 – Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953)

* 1993 – Kenneth Boulding, American economist and activist (b. 1910)

* 1995 – Robin Jacques, British children’s book illustrator (b. 1920)

* 1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

* 1999 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)

* 2000 – Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)

* 2001 – John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)

* 2002 – R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction writer (b. 1914)

* 2002 – Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)

* 2003 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)

* 2003 – Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)

* 2004 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)

* 2006 – Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)

* 2006 – Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)

* 2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer (b. 1922)

* 2007 – Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer (b. 1948)

* 2008 – Anthony Minghella, British film director (b. 1954)

* 2008 – Andrew Britton, British-born American novelist (b. 1981)