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3 Deaths

• 1014 - Brian Boru, High King of Ireland during the Battle of Clontarf (b. c. 940)
• 1124 - King Alexander I of Scotland (b. 1078)
• 1616 ( Julian calendar) - William Shakespeare, English playwright and actor (b. 1564)
• 1616 ( Gregorian calendar) - Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
• 1792 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
• 1850 - William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
• 1951 - Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States for Calvin Coolidge (b 1865)
• 1975 - William Hartnell, actor (b. 1908)
• 1979 - Blair Peach, anti-fascism campaigner (b. 1946)
• 1983 - Buster Crabbe, Olympics swimming gold medalist, actor
• 1986 - Otto Preminger, film director (b. 1906)
• 1986 - Jim Laker, cricketer (b. 1922
• 1990 - Paulette Goddard, actress
• 1992 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)
• 1993 - César Chávez, labor activist (b. 1927)
• 1995 - Howard Cosell, sports journalist (b. 1918)
• 1996 - Pamela L. Travers, author (b. 1899)
• 1997 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (b. 1918)
• 1998 - James Earl Ray, assassin (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Linda Lovelace, pornographic film star (b. 1949)

4 Holidays and observances

• Jurgi festival, in ancient Latvia
• Feast Day of Saint George:
  • National Day of England
  • celebrated as St. Jordi's Day in Catalonia, presents of books and roses.
• Independence Day for the Conch Republic
• National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey ( 1920)

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