Famous deaths for this day .. 0640 - Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58 1100 - Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies 1374 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 1544 - Ren‚ van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25 1591 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40 1608 - Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61 1639 - Bernard, duke of Saksen-Weimar (Rheinfelden), dies 1642 - Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies 1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74 1695 - Joannes Camphuys, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 61 1710 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Ital painter, dies at 36 1721 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies 1735 - Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83 1817 - Jane Austen, writer, dies 1831 - Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72 1833 - Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63 1854 - Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41 1863 - William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29 1872 - Benito Ju rez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66 1892 - Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83 1894 - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75 1898 - Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62 1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies 1901 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79 1902 - John White, composer, dies at 47 1908 - Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83 1915 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53 1938 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35 1939 - Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65
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