HERE IS TODAYS LIST OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY! 290 - [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated 336 - Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes 929 - Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies 1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338) 1488 - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52 1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500) 1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488) 1571 - Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in the Battle of Lepanto 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet 1612 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70 1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547) 1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587) 1639 - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559) 1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581) 1660 - Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 1681 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61 1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666) 1766 - Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71 1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720) 1777 - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle 1780 - Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36 1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711) American Statesman George MasonAmerican Statesman George Mason (1792) 1792 - George Mason, American statesman, advocated for The Bill of Rights (b. 1725) 1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718) 1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710) 1800 - Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged 1811 - August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40 1864 - Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle 1864 - John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36 Author Edgar Allan PoeAuthor Edgar Allan Poe (1849) 1887 - George James Webb, composer, dies at 84 1890 - John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809) 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832) 1906 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848) 1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835) 1915 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74 1918 - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856) 1924 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71 1925 - Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86 1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880) 1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856) 1939 - Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70 1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899) 1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880) 1951 - Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77 1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886) 1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack 1959 - PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated 1962 - Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66 1963 - Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69 1963 - Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (M), dies of internal hemorrhage at 63 1964 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84 1966 - Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash 1966 - Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46 1967 - Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies 1969 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888) 1976 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73 1981 - Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73 1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895) 1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73 1990 - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies 1990 - John Cat Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84 1990 - Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies Baseball Player and Manager Leo DurocherBaseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher (1991) 1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86 1992 - Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62 1992 - Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies 1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904) 1993 - Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88 1993 - Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82 1993 - Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63 1994 - James Hill, director, dies at 75 1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82 1994 - Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60 1995 - Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59 1995 - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91 1996 - Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86 1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915) 2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955) 2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909) 2001 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913) 2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932) 2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912) 2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931) 2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942) 2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949) 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958) 2007 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975) 2007 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931) 2008 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913) 2009 - Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917) 2010 - Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966) 2010 - Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924) 2010 - T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956) 2011 - Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925) 2012 - John Martin Tchicai, Danish saxophonist, dies at 76 2013 - Patrice Chéreau, French film and opera director, dies from lung cancer at 68
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