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  • 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
  • 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV
  • 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
  • 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy
  • 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist
  • 1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago
  • 1946 - Hans Frank, German war criminal
  • 1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal
  • 1946 - Alfred Jodl, German military officer
  • 1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer
  • 1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer
  • 1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician
  • 1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist
  • 1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal
  • 1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austria]n Nazi leader
  • 1946 - Julius Streicher, German propagandist
  • 1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • 1959 - George C. Marshall, general and United States Secretary of State
  • 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana
  • 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, actor
  • 1973 - Gene Krupa, musician
  • 1978 - Dan Dailey, actor
  • 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author
  • 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general
  • 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer
  • 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
  • 1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor
  • 1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
  • 1992 - Shirley Booth, actress
  • 1997 - James Michener, American writer
  • 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer
  • 1999 - Jean Shepherd, writer and actor
  • 2003 - Stu Hart, professional wrestler
  • 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer
  • 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist