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2008 Stephanie Tubbs Jones, dies in Ohio, of a brain aneurysm, at 58
2007 Leona Helmsley, dies of congestive heart failure at 87, in Greenwich, Connecticut
2001 Sir Fred Hoyle, "astronomer, science fiction writer", ", coined the term ""big bang"", ", dies at 86
1999 Bobby Sheehan, American Musician
1996 George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81
1996 Rio Reiser, born Ralph Christian Mobius, musician, singer, political activist, member of ton Steine Scherben, a famous rock group, wrote Rachhaussong supporting the squatter scene, dies at 46
1995 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68
1995 John E. Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63
1995 Paul Foster, singer, Soul Stirrers gospel group member, dies at 75
1995 Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64
1995 Von McDaniel, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
1994 Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65
1994 Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
1993 Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80
1992 Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
1992 William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53
1991 Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
1991 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
1990 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
1986 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
1986 Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
1986 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
1985 Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1983 Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murdered by racist at 15
1982 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu), dies of bone cancer at 53
1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
1978 Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51
1978 Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
1976 Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69
1974 Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62
1970 Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
1968 Earl Sande, U.S. jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69
1961 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
1960 Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68
1959 Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82
1959 William Halsey, American Soldier
1956 [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (Fouche), dies at 85
1952 Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies
1948 David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65
1947 Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79
1935 Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
1935 Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies
1932 Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
1932 Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
1932 Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
1931 Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
1919 Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies
1917 JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
1915 Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
1914 Pius X, Giuseppe M Sarto, Pope (1903-14), dies
1912 William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies
1910 Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64
1908 Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
1888 William Chappell, English Writer
1885 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
1864 Daniel Chaplin, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies
1864 John H Kelly, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24
1856 Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80
1854 Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79
1854 Friedrich von Schelling, German Philosopher
1825 Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68
1823 Pius VII, Luigi B Chiaramonti, Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
1813 Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
1804 Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
1799 Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37
1679 Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1648 Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65
1639 Martin Opitz, German poet and historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41
1632 Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38
1538 Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake
1384 Geert Great, Gerardus Magnus, theologist (Getijdenboek), dies
1153 Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies
984 John XIV, Petrus Canepanova, Italian Pope (983-84), dies
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