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May 26 735: The Venerable Bede, historian, Jarrow, England. Jul 29 1030: Olaf II, unifier of Norway, in battle. Apr 21 1142: Peter Abelard, philosopher & musician, St-Marcel, France. Aug 18 1227: Genghis Khan, of injuries suffered while riding, age unknown. Mar 7 1274: Thomas Aquinas, philosopher & theologian, aged 49. Sep 14 1321: Dante Aligheri, poet, Ravenna, aged 56. Jan 9 1324: Marco Polo, traveller, Venice. Nov 8 1325: Wizlav III von Ruegen, prince & Minnesinger, Barth. Dec 21 1375: Giovanni Boccaccio, storyteller, Certaldo, Italy, aged 62. Oct 25 1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, London, of the plague. May 30 1431: Joan of Arc, soldier, burned at the stake, Rouen, aged 19. Jun 5 1445: Leonel Power, composer, Canterbury. Sep 20 1460: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois, composer, Soignies. Mar 14 1471: Sir Thomas Mallory, translator, London, aged 71. Nov 27 1474: Guillaume Dufay, composer, Cambrai. Feb 18 1478: George, Duke of Clarence, drowned in a butt of malmsey wine. Nov 6 1492: Antoine Busnois, composer, Bruges. Feb 6 1497: Johannes Ockeghem, composer, Tours. Apr 22 1509: Henry VII of England. Mar 26 1517: Heinrich Isaac, composer, Florence. Aug 27 1521: Josquin des Pres, composer, Conde-sur-l'Escaut. Aug 29 1533: Atahualpa, last Incan king, at the orders of Francisco Pizarro. Jul 7 1535: Sir Thomas More, statesman & author, executed by Henry VIII, London. Jul 12 1536: Desiderius Erasmus, philosopher, Basel. Oct 18 1545: John Taverner, composer, Boston. Apr 9 1553: Francois Rabelais, poet, Paris (trad.) Jul 31 1556: Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. Dec 17 1562: Adrian Willaert, composer, Venice. Aug 30 1585: Andrea Gabrieli, composer, Venice. Feb 14 1571: Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor, Florence. Nov 23 1585: Thomas Tallis, composer, Greenwich. Sep 13 1592: Michel de Montaigne, essayist. May 29 1593: Christopher Marlowe, aged 29, stabbed in a tavern brawl. Feb 2 1594: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, composer, Rome. Feb 21 1595: Robert Southwell, poet, London, hanged as a Jesuit. Jan 16 1599: Edmund Spencer, poet, Westminster. Aug 20 1611: Tomas Luis de Victoria, composer, Madrid. Sep 8 1613: Don Carlo Gesualdo, composer & lutenist, Gesualdo, Italy. Mar 5 1616: Francis Beaumont, dramatist, aged 32. Apr 23 1616: William Shakespeare, playwright and poet, Stratford upon Avon. Apr 23 1616: Miguel Cervantes, novelist, Madrid. Oct 29 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, poet & adventurer, executed by James I. Oct 16 1621: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer, Amsterdam. Feb 15 1621: Michael Praetorius, composer, Hamburg. July 4 1623: William Byrd, composer, Stondon Massey, aged 80. Jun 5 1625: Orlando Gibbons, composer & organist, Canterbury. Feb 20 1626: John Dowland, composer & lutenist, London (buried). Mar 12 1628: John Bull, composer, Antwerp. Mar 31 1631: John Donne, poet, London. Aug 6 1637: Ben Jonson, soldier, poet, & playwright, London, aged 65. Jan 25 1640: Robert Burton, au. of "Anatomy of Melancholy", Oxford. Nov 29 1643: Claudio Monteverdi, composer, Venice. Mar 26 1657: Jacob van Eyck, composer & carillonist, Utrecht. Jul 28 1667: Abraham Cowley, poet, Chertsey, Surrey, aged 48. Nov 8 1674: John Milton, poet, London, aged 65. Aug 16 1678: Andrew Marvell, poet & statesman, London, aged 57. Aug 31 1688: John Bunyan, au. of "Pilgrim's Progress", Holborn, aged 60. Apr 16 1689: Aphra Behn, novelist; 1st Englishwoman to live on her writing. May 1 1700: John Dryden, poet & playwright, London, aged 68. Aug 20 1701: Sir Charles Sedley, poet & playwright, Hampstead, aged 62. May 26 1703: Samuel Pepys, diarist & administrator, Clapham, England. May 9 1707: Dietrich Buxtehude, composer & organist, Lubeck. Jan 1 1716: William Wycherley, dramatist, London. Jan 19 1729: William Congreve, playwright, London. May 27 1730: Leonardo Vinci, composer, Naples. Dec 18 1737: Antonio Stradivari, luthier, Cremona. Jul 28 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach. Jul 4 1761: Samuel Richardson, au. of "Pamela", 1st English novel, aged 72. Mar 18 1768: Lawrence Sterne, novelist, London. Aug 29 1769: Edmond Hoyle, of "According to Hoyle", London, aged 97. Aug 24 1770: Thomas Chatterton, poet & forger, London, aged 17, by his own hand. May 20 1771: Christopher Smart, poet, aged 49, in a debtor's prison. Jan 8 1775: John Baskerville, type designer, Cambridge. Sep 22 1776: Nathan Hale, hanged as a spy. Jul 2 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, Ermonville, France, aged 66. Dec 13 1784: Samuel Johnson, polymath, London, aged 75. May 30 1788: Voltaire, playwright & commentator, Paris, aged 82. Apr 17 1790: Benjamin Franklin, polymath, Philadelphia, aged 84. Dec 5 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, Vienna. Jul 18 1792: John Paul Jones, naval hero, Paris. Jul 13 1793: John Paul Marat, revolutionary, murdered in his bathtub. Jan 16 1794: Edward Gibbon, historian, London. Jul 28 1794: Maximilien Robespierre, revolutionary, executed by the Terror. Jul 28 1794: Louis Saint-Just, revolutionary, executed by the Terror. May 19 1795: James Boswell, biographer, London, aged 54. Jul 21 1796: Robert Burns, poet, Dumfries, Scotland. Mar 2 1797: Horace Walpole, author and statesman, London, aged 79. Jul 9 1797: Edmund Burke, philosopher & statesman, aged 68. Apr 25 1800: William Cowper, poet, East Dereham, Norfolk. Feb 12 1804: Immanuel Kant, philosopher, Koenigsberg, Prussia. Jul 11 1804: Alexander Hamilton, mortally wounded in a dual with Aaron Burr. Jun 8 1809: Thomas Paine, pamphleteer, New York City, aged 72. Jul 18 1817: Jane Austen, novelist, Winchester, England, aged 41. Feb 23 1821: John Keats, poet, Rome. Jul 8 1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet, drowned while boating, aged 29. Apr 19 1824: George Gordon, Lord Byron, poet, Missolonghi, Greece, aged 36. Jul 4 1826: Thomas Jefferson, polymath, Monticello. Jul 4 1826: John Adams, statesman, Quincy, Mass. Aug 12 1827: William Blake, poet & artist, London, aged 70. Dec 17 1830: Simon Bolivar, revolutionary; last words: "I have plowed the sea." Nov 11 1831: Nat Turner, leader of slave rebellion, by hanging. Mar 22 1832: Goethe, polymath, Weimar; last words: "More light!" Feb 10 1837: Alexander Pushkin, poet, Moscow, of wounds received in a duel. Mar 21 1843: Robert Southey, poet laureate, Greta Hall, England. Jul 4 1848: Chateaubriand, statesman & author, Paris, aged 79. May 28 1849: Anne Bronte, poet, Scarborough, Yorkshire, aged 29. Feb 1 1851: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist, Bournemouth, England. Mar 4 1852: Nicholai Gogol, novelist, Moscow, aged 42. Feb 16 1856: Heinrich Heine, poet, Paris. Nov 28 1859: Washington Irving, storyteller, aged 76. Dec 8 1859: Thomas De Quincey, storyteller, Edinburgh, aged 74. May 6 1862: Thoreau, Concord, Mass, aged 44; last words: "Moose. Indian." Jul 10 1863: Clement C. Moore, au. of "Twas the Night Before Christmas", aged 83 Aug 31 1867: Charles Baudelaire, poet & critic, Paris, aged 46. Jun 9 1870: Charles Dickens, novelist, aged 58. Jul 15 1881: William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), gunfighter, Ft. Sumner, NM. Dec 6 1882: Anthony Trollope, novelist, Hastings, Sussex, aged 67. May 22 1885: Victor Hugo, novelist, Paris, aged 83. Dec 15 1890: Sitting Bull, statesman, South Dakota, age unknown. Jul 29 1890: Vincent van Gogh, Auvers, France. Dec 3 1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist & poet, Apia, Samoa, aged 44. Jan 20 1900: John Ruskin, critic, Coniston, England. Nov 30 1900: Oscar Wilde, poet & playwright, Paris, aged 46. Sep 29 1902: William McGonagall, called worst poet ever to live, Edinburgh. May 23 1906: Henrik Ibsen, playwright, Oslo, aged 72. Feb 17 1909: Geronimo, Indian warrior. Nov 21 1910: Leo Tolstoy, novelist, aged 82. Aug 13 1910: Florence Nightingale, nurse, London. Mar 10 1913: Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter. Feb 28 1916: Henry James, novelist, London, aged 72. Nov 22 1916: Jack London, novelist, aged 40, by his own hand. Nov 4 1918: Wilfred Owen, poet, of wounds received in battle, aged 25. Apr 21 1918: Baron Manfred von Richthoven, the "Red Baron", in combat. Jul 16 1918: Tsar Nicholas II and his family, executed by the Bolsheviks. Jun 3 1924: Franz Kafka, novelist, Kierling, Austria, aged 40. Sep 14 1927: Isadora Duncan, dancer, by an accident with her scarf. Jan 11 1928: Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet, near Dorchester. Mar 2 1930: D. H. Lawrence, novelist, Venice, aged 45, of tuberculosis. Dec 5 1931: Vachel Lindsay, poet, aged 52, by his own hand. Apr 27 1932: Hart Crane, poet, at sea, aged 32. Jul 22 1934: John Dillinger, gangster, outside the Biograph Theater, Chicago. May 23 1934: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, criminals, Louisiana. Aug 15 1935: Will Rogers and Wiley Post, in an airplane crash in Alaska. May 19 1935: T. E. Lawrence, aka "Lawrence of Arabia", in a motorcycle accident. May 23 1938: John D. Rockefeller, Sr., plutocrat, aged 97. Jun 26 1939: Ford Madox Ford, novelist, Deauville, France, aged 66. Jan 28 1939: William Butler Yeats, Roquebrune, France. Aug 21 1940: Leon Trotsky, Mexico City, age 61. Mar 28 1941: Virginia Woolf, novelist & cult figure, by her own hand. Mar 13 1943: Stephen St. Vincent Benet, storyteller & journalist, NYC, aged 44. Jan 23 1943: Alexander Woolcott, wit, New York City. Apr 18 1945: Ernie Pyle, correspondent, by sniper fire in the Ryukyu Islands. Jul 27 1946: Gertrude Stein, writer & cult figure, Paris. Apr 24 1947: Willa Cather, novelist, New York City, aged 73. Aug 16 1948: George Herman "Babe" Ruth, baseball player, New York City, aged 53. Nov 2 1950: George Bernard Shaw, playwright & critic, aged 94. Jul 16 1953: Hilaire Belloc, journalist & historian, Shipley, Sussex, aged 83. Nov 9 1953: Dylan Thomas, poet, New York. May 19 1954: Charles Ives, composer, New York. Aug 12 1955: Thomas Mann, novelist, Zurich, aged 80. Jan 29 1956: H. L. Mencken, newspaperman and philosopher, Baltimore. Feb 8 1957: John von Neumann, polymath, Washington, D.C., aged 54. Apr 9 1959: Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, aged 89. Jul 8 1959: MAJ Dale R. Buis, US Army, first US soldier to die in Viet Nam. Jan 4 1960: Albert Camus, novelist and philosopher, near Sens, France. Sep 18 1961: Dag Hammarskjold, Sec. Gen. of the UN, in plane crash. Jul 2 1961: Ernest Hemingway, Ketchum, Idaho, aged 62, by his own hand. Sep 3 1962: e. e. cummings, poet, North Conway, NH, aged 67. Feb 11 1963: Sylvia Plath, poet, London, by her own hand. Nov 22 1963: C. S. Lewis, philologist & Christian apologist. Nov 22 1963: Aldous Huxley, novelist. Jun 3 1963: Pope John XXIII, Rome, aged 81. Oct 9 1967: Che Guevara, revolutionary, killed in Bolivia at his trade. Aug 25 1967: George Lincoln Rockwell, Nazi, assassinated, Arlington, Va. Dec 20 1968: John Steinbeck, novelist, New York City. Oct 21 1969: Jack Kerouac, St. Petersburg, Fl., aged 47, of alcohol poisoning. Oct 4 1970: Janis Joplin, singer, aged 27. Feb 2 1970: Bertrand Russell, polymath, Penrydeudraeth, Wales, aged 97. Nov 25 1970: Yukio Mishima, novelist, aged 45, via rite of "seppuku". Jul 6 1971: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, composer & trumpeter, New York City. Nov 1 1972: Ezra Pound, poet & cult figure, Venice, aged 87. Jan 7 1972: John Berryman, poet, by his own hand. Sep 9 1976: Mao Tse-tung, writer and politician, Peking, aged 82. Aug 16 1977: Elvis Presley, singer & cult figure, Memphis, aged 42. Sep 16 1977: Maria Callas, diva, Paris, aged 53. Jul 24 1980: Peter Sellers, actor, comedian, aged 54. May 11 1981: Robert Nesta (Bob) Marley, singer & songwriter, age 36. Mar 6 1982: Ayn Rand, novelist, New York City, aged 77. Sep 14 1982: John Gardner, novelist, aged 49. Aug 21 1983: Benigno Aquino, murdered on return to Manila. Feb 25 1983: Tennessee Williams, poet and playwright, New York City. Mar 3 1983: Arthur Koestler, novelist, aged 77, by his own hand. Dec 7 1985: Robert Graves, poet & novelist, Deya, Majorca, aged 90. Jun 15 1986: Jorge Luis Borges, poet & philosopher, Geneva, aged 86. Nov 11 1986: Vyacheslav Skryabin (Molotov), assistant to Stalin. Jun 4 1987: Andres Segovia, guitarist, Madrid, aged 94. Jun 22 1987: Fred Astaire, dancer & actor, Hollywood, aged 88. Jul 21 1987: Herbert B. Knechtel, creator Frango mints and Space Food Sticks, aged 80. Apr 14 1990: Greta Garbo, screen actress, New York, 84. Oct 14 1990: Leonard Bernstein, conductor & composer, New York, 72. Mar 1 1993: Eddie Constantine, "Lemmie Caution" in "Alphaville". Mar 1 1993: Lillian Gish, actress. Mar 1 1993: Ruby Keeler, actress & singer. Mar 3 1993: Albert Sabin, developer of oral polio vaccine, aged 86.
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