1596: English explorer Francis Drake dies.
1638: Spanish author Gonzalo de Cespedes y Meneses dies.
1731: Italian instrument-maker Bartolomeo Cristofori dies.
1851: American ornithologist and painter John James Audubon dies.
1901: Italian composer Giuseppi Verdi dies.
1910: English plumber Thomas Crapper dies.
2002: More than 1,100 people die in an explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria.
2013: In the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria, 242 people die in a nightclub fire.
1638: Spanish author Gonzalo de Cespedes y Meneses dies.
1731: Italian instrument-maker Bartolomeo Cristofori dies.
1851: American ornithologist and painter John James Audubon dies.
1901: Italian composer Giuseppi Verdi dies.
1910: English plumber Thomas Crapper dies.
2002: More than 1,100 people die in an explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria.
2013: In the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria, 242 people die in a nightclub fire.
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