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2004 Mary McGrory, writer, The Washington Post, dies at 85
2003 Nina Simone, singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70
2001 "Jack Haley, Jr", documentary producer, That's Entertainment!, dies at 67
2001 Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician
2000 Al Purdy, Canadian Poet
1999 Buddy Rogers, actor, Wings, dies at 94
1997 Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies
1997 Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies
1996 Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies
1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader, dies at 52
1996 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
1996 Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76
1996 Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93
1996 Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86
1995 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93
1995 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1994 Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
1993 Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1992 Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39
1992 Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1992 Robert Alton Harris, American Criminal
1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81
1991 Richard Bolling, Representative-D-Missouri 1949 - 1983, U.S. civil-rights leader, dies at 74
1990 Erte, art deco stylist, dies at 97
1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
1989 James Kirkwood, actor and writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
1987 Edith S. Green, Representative-D-Oregon, dies at 77
1985 Rudi Gernreich, U.S. designer (miniskirt), dies at 62
1985 Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75
1985 Irving Mills, American Musician
1982 Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
1978 Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx, U.S. comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1975 Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70
1973 Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1971 Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
1971 Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64
1971 Francois Duvalier, Haitian Statesman
1968 Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
1967 Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1965 Edward Appleton, English Scientist
1962 Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1956 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright
1952 Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61
1952 [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66
1946 John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62
1946 John Maynard Keynes, English Economist
1945 John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1939 Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66
1938 Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
1938 Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet
1930 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
1930 Robert Bridges, English Poet
1924 Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64
1924 Marie Corelli, English Writer
1924 Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress
1918 "Red Baron", Manfred von Richtofen, shot down in WW I at 25
1918 Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator
1910 Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
1900 Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
1899 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80
1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
1878 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
1871 Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies
1780 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60
1736 Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72
1731 Daniel Defoe, English Journalist
1730 Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1699 Jean Racine, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate', dies at 59
1696 Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61
1652 Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66
1574 Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1552 Peter Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German astronomer, dies at 50
1509 Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52
1142 Pierre Abelard, French philosopher (Sic et Non, Heloise), dies at 62
1109 Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1073 Alexander II, Anselmo da Baggio, Pope (1061-73), dies
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