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2006 Daniel Schaefer, Representative-R-Colorado 1983 - 1999
2003 Graham Jarvis, actor, Seventh Heaven, dies at 72
2002 Robert Urich, actor, Spenser for Hire, dies at 55
2002 Ruth Fertel, restaurateur, started Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, dies at 75
2001 Michael Ritchie, American Director
1998 Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, oldest person in 1998, dies at 117
1997 Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon, dies at 66
1997 Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82
1997 Michael Stroka, TV actor, Aristede-Dark Shadows, dies of cancer at 57
1996 Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73
1996 Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer, dies at 89
1996 Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62
1996 Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipowner, dies at 86
1995 Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75
1995 Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide
1995 Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80
1995 Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster, dies at 86
1994 John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75
1994 Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
1994 Ron Vawter, U.S. actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
1994 Samuel Selvon, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, dies at 70
1994 Ralph Ellison, American Author
1993 John P. W. Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77
1992 Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
1992 Frank Killmond, dies at 58
1992 Neville Brand, actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71
1991 David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83
1989 Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies
1988 Abu Jihad, Khalil al-Wazzir, PLO-leader, murdered
1988 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (soc-dem), dies at 90
1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
1988 Warde Donovan, dies at 72
1985 Scott Brady, Gerald Tierney, actor (Shotgun Slade), dies at 60
1980 Alf Sjoberg, dir (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76
1978 Lucius D. Clay, general and Governor U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80
1973 Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43
1972 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72
1971 Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46
1970 Peter Veres, Hungarian minister of defense/writer, dies at 73
1970 Richard J. Neutra, Australia/US architect (Who Bought America?), dies at 78
1970 Richard Neutra, American Architect
1968 Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78
1968 Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76
1959 Charles Halton, dies at 83
1955 Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
1951 Emile Erens, Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at 85
1949 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54
1941 Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician, dies
1941 Josiah Stamp, British Businessman
1938 Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor, dies
1929 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57
1924 Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (England in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies
1920 John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80
1915 Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician
1914 George W. Hill, U.S. astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76
1904 Samuel Smiles, Scottish Author
1881 George William Martin, composer, dies at 56
1879 Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France
1876 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83
1870 Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies
1865 Robert C Tyler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1860 Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies
1859 Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist
1858 Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87
1850 Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies
1846 Domenico Dragonetti, composer, dies at 83
1828 Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82
1825 John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84
1825 Henry Fuseli, British Artist
1760 Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward
1756 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79
1743 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69
1689 Aphra Behn, English Dramatist
1687 George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham, dies at 59
1619 Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, Dionisio Fiamingo, Flemish painter, dies
1529 Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake
1496 David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69
1446 Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, dies
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