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August 23, 2004 Emiel Petrone, CD/DVD developer, dies at 61 August 23, 2001 Kathleen Freeman, actress, Blues Brothers, dies at 82 August 23, 2001 Peter Maas, writer, Serpico, dies at 72 August 23, 1999 James White, writer, Sector General books, dies at 71 August 23, 1999 Martha Rountree, journalist, Meet the Press, dies at 87 August 23, 1999 Michelle Thomas, 12/22/98, Family Matters, dies at 30 August 23, 1997 Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies August 23, 1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96 August 23, 1995 Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81 August 23, 1995 Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician, dies at 31 August 23, 1995 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66 August 23, 1995 James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66 August 23, 1995 Johnny Carey, soccer star, dies at 76 August 23, 1995 Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon, dies at 72 August 23, 1994 Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82 August 23, 1994 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 August 23, 1994 Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65 August 23, 1994 Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77 August 23, 1994 Zoltan Fabri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76 August 23, 1993 Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80 August 23, 1993 Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42 August 23, 1993 Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88 August 23, 1992 Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85 August 23, 1992 Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92 August 23, 1992 Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51 August 23, 1991 Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93 August 23, 1990 David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80 August 23, 1989 Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies August 23, 1989 Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies August 23, 1989 Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black August 23, 1987 Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80 August 23, 1986 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80 August 23, 1982 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85 August 23, 1982 Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies August 23, 1980 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77 August 23, 1979 Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70 August 23, 1977 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair), dies at 59 August 23, 1975 Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87 August 23, 1974 Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist August 23, 1972 Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68 August 23, 1971 Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at 58 August 23, 1971 Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64 August 23, 1970 Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55 August 23, 1966 Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83 August 23, 1965 John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67 August 23, 1965 George Black, Canadian Public Servant August 23, 1962 Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70 August 23, 1962 Irving Fine, composer (Toccata), dies at 47 August 23, 1962 Walter Anderson, German Writer August 23, 1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65 August 23, 1958 Martin du Gard, writer, dies August 23, 1956 ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day August 23, 1944 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63 August 23, 1943 Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88 August 23, 1939 Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48 August 23, 1937 Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68 August 23, 1933 Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62 August 23, 1929 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies August 23, 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass August 23, 1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in New York at 31 August 23, 1914 Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks August 23, 1914 George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies August 23, 1903 Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75 August 23, 1898 Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82 August 23, 1878 Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77 August 23, 1865 Ferdinand G Waldmuller, Austria painter (biedermeier), dies August 23, 1839 Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57 August 23, 1831 August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70 August 23, 1825 Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81 August 23, 1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday August 23, 1806 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70 August 23, 1802 Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51 August 23, 1777 Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77 August 23, 1723 Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64 August 23, 1668 Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies August 23, 1628 George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36 August 23, 1618 Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33 August 23, 1591 Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies August 23, 1540 Guillaume Bude, French humanist, dies at about 72 August 23, 1507 Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72 August 23, 1328 Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle August 23, 1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled and beheaded August 23, 634 Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed, dies |