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3 Deaths

• 14 - Augustus, Roman emperor
• 1186 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Brittany, stamped by a horse in a tournament
• 1662 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
• 1819 - James Watt, engineer (b. 1736)
• 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden-Norway (b. 1826)
• 1895 - John Wesley Hardin, gunfighter
• 1936 - Federico García Lorca, author
• 1936 - John M.S. Pearce , neurologist and author
• 1957 - David Bomberg, painter
• 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
• 1970 - Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
• 1977 - Groucho Marx, comedian, actor (b. 1890)
• 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
• 1994 - Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist
• 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
• 2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN Special Representative in Iraq

4 Holidays and observances

• Afghan Independence Day see above: 1919

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