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[change] Births
- 1919 - Edmund Hillary
- 1974 - Simon Rex
- 1989 - Tim Frommeyer
- 1993 - Brigid Myers
[change] Deaths
- 985 - Pope Boniface VII
- 1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)
- 1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (1103)
- 1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian
- 1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
- 1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b.1291)
- 1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
- 1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
- 1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
- 1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
- 1524 - Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
- 1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier
- 1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
- 1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
- 1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- 1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
- 1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
- 1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
- 1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
- 1903 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
- 1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835)
- 1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
- 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
- 1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
- 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
- 1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
- 1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
- 1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
- 1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
- 1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
- 1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
- 1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
- 1959 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
- 1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
- 1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
- 1983 - Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)
- 1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief
- 1991 - Earl Robinson, American singer and composer
- 1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
- 1997 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
- 1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
- 2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
- 2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Charles Chibitty, World War II Comanche code talker (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
- 2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
- 2005- Alfred Hayes, British-born wrestling announcer (b. 1928)
[change] Events
- 1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon.
