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Events

Up to 1900

1901 1950

1951 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1800

1801 1900

1901 1925

1926 1950

1951 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

  • AD 1216Pope Innocent III
  • 1397Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
  • 1464Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
  • 1468Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
  • 1622Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
  • 1623Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
  • 1666Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
  • 1671Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
  • 1707Marie d'Orléans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
  • 1712 - Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1657)
  • 1722John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
  • 1749Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
  • 1752Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
  • 1752Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
  • 1777Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
  • 1778Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
  • 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
  • 1792 - Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
  • 1804Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
  • 1817Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759)
  • 1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman (b. 1839)
  • 1849Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
  • 1850 - William Lawson, explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
  • 1855John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
  • 1858John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
  • 1862 - Hidenoyama Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1808)
  • 1866Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
  • 1869Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
  • 1872Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
  • 1878Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
  • 1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
  • 1885Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
  • 1894William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)

1901 2000

From 2001

Observances

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