Unique Facts, Famous Faces and History of Your Birthday
1129 - Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 761304 - Benedict XI, [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies
1307 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies
1656 - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1694 - Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1773 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
1774 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
1790 - Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1865 - Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1898 - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
1919 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1944 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
1945 - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40
1967 - Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53
1968 - Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1970 - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78
1976 - Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76
1976 - Norman Foster, dies at 75
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist
1983 - George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1983 - Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
1984 - Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
1988 - Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr H), dies at 68
1990 - Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 - Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
1994 - Anita Garvin, US actress (Sailors Beware), dies at 80
1994 - Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
1995 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73
1996 - Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
1997 - Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/LA Dodgers), dies at 80
2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
2006 - John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
2008 - Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)
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