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Events on Saturday 30 December 1916 1
1869 – 1916Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916)Died 30 December 1916, aged 47Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic who gained enormous influence over the family of Tsar Nicholas II. He was murdered by a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov, an act that further destabilized the Russian monarchy on the eve of revolution.