1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies 1564 – Christophorus Fabritius [Christoffel Smit], calvinist vicar, burned 1596 – Florent Chrestien, French writer and satirist, dies at 55 1611 – Margarita of Austria, Queen of Spain and Portugal by marriage to King Philip III and II of Spain, dies at 26 1629 …
1113 – Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies 1678 – Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them 1920 – Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82 1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859) 1967 – Albertina Rasch, Austrian-born American ballerina and choreographer, dies at 76 1985 …
1310 – Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257) 1633 – Filaret Romanov, patriarch of Moscow, dies (b. 1550) 1904 – William Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 76 1930 – Ricacrdo Drigo, Italian composer of opera and ballet music, (Le Réveil de Flore; “La Flûte magique), conductor (Imperial …
1897 – Therese of Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun, made a saint in 1925, dies of tuberculosis at 24 1948 – Edith Roosevelt, US First Lady and wife of Teddy Roosevelt, dies at 87 1960 – St John Philby, British explorer and Arabist, dies at 75 1983 – William Elliott, American actor (Bridget Loves Bernie – …
1867 – Sterling “Old Pap” Price, American lawyer, U.S. Army Brigadier General and politician (11th Governor of Missouri), dies at 58 1915 – Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), dies fighting in World War I at 28 1959 – Harold Huber [Huberman], American radio, stage, a,d screen actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at …
1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769) 1873 – Emile Gaboriau, French writer (father of the French detective novels), dies at 37 1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman who founded department store Sears, Roebuck and Company, dies of Bright’s disease at 50 1968 – Corry Lievens, Flemish actress, playwright and …
1719 – George Smalridge, British Bishop of Bristol (Sixty Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions), dies at 56 1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist (Oblomov), dies at 79 1943 – Wac?aw Gieburowski, Polish Catholic priest, choral conductor, composer, and musicologist, dies at 65 1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892) 1974 – Silvio Frondizi, …
1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian cardinal and jurist, dies at 57 1620 – Taichang Emperor [Zhu Changluo], 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, dies at 38 1780 – Bernard Paul Moll, German diplomat, map collector and cartographer, dies at 83 1959 – S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1956-59), assassinated by …
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025) 1791 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719) 1870 – Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1846-70), dies at 76 1944 – Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43 1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme …
1732 – Reigen [Satohito], 112th Emperor of Japan (1663-87), dies at 78 1855 – Alexandre Stiévenard, French violinist, guitarist and composer, dies at 86 1924 – William Laurel Harris, American mural painter (Church of Saint Paul the Apostle in NY), dies of a stroke at 54 1975 – Clive Morton, British actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, …
1910 – Tup Scott, Australian cricket batsman and captain (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 102; Victoria), dies of typhoid at 51 1972 – Calvin Frazier, American country and Detroit blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (“This Old World’s In A Tangle”), dies of cancer at 57 1992 – James Van Fleet, American US Army General (served …
1286 – Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60 1539 – Guru Nanak, Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru, dies at 70 1952 – Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage, The Cross-Patch), dies at 63 1953 – William Brann, South African cricketer (3 Tests for …
1542 – Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet (b. c. 1490) 1944 – James E. Ferguson, American Democratic party politician (Governor of Texas, 1915-17; First Gentleman of Texas, 1925-27 and 1933-35), dies at 73 1997 – Eric William Hunter Christie, British lawyer and advocate for the Falkland Islands, dies at 75 1997 – Jennifer Holt, American …
1630 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, dies at 44 1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist and editor of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, dies at 78 1908 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (Spanish Dancer), dies at 64 1933 – Annie Besant, English social reformer and supporter of Indian independence, dies at 85 1974 …
1719 – Joachim Tielke, German violin maker, dies at 77 1902 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku and tanka poet and diarist (Salt Water Ballads), dies at 34 1935 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian pioneer in rocket and space research, dies at 78 1962 – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright, dies at 61 1971 – William F. Albright, …
1891 – William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817) 1951 – Pamela Colman Smith, British suffragist, writer and artist known for designing the Rider-Waite deck of tarot cards, dies at 73 1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver, dies at 26 1967 – John Cockcroft, English physicist (development of Radar, Nobel Prize 1951 for 1st …
1179 – Saint Hildegard von Bingen, German Benedictine nun, magistra, writer, and 1st western composer whose works survive (Ordo virtutum), dies at 81 1791 – Tomás de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias), dies at 40 1820 – Henri Hamal, Belgian composer, dies at 76 1933 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society …
655 – Pope Martin I, Umbrian cleric, Pope of the Imperial Church (649-53) who was banished due to his opposition to Monothelitism, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint, dies at between 55 and 65 [birthdate unceratin] 1775 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684) 1865 – Christian Julius De Meza, …