Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1851 Marie-Louise Coidavid, Queen of Haiti as consort to King Henri Christophe, died in exile in Italy.
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Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1851 
Natal Archives anon. — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1870 Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Basotho nation and Lesotho's first king, died; the date is commemorated as Moshoeshoe Day.
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Yoichi Okamoto — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1971 Whitney Young, American civil rights leader who headed the National Urban League, died.
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Antonio Cruz/ABr — CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 2022 Rupiah Banda, fourth President of Zambia, died.
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