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August 24, 2004 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, writer/physician, On Death and Dying, dies at 78 August 24, 1999 Mary Jane Croft, actress, The Lucy Show, dies at 83 August 24, 1998 E. G. Marshall, actor, The Defenders, dies at 88 August 24, 1997 Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90 August 24, 1996 Ahmed Bahauddin, journalist, dies at 69 August 24, 1996 Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73 August 24, 1996 John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75 August 24, 1996 Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42 August 24, 1995 Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78 August 24, 1995 Gary Crosby, singer and actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61 August 24, 1994 Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23 August 24, 1994 Wijnanda MC "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82 August 24, 1992 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74 August 24, 1992 Larrie Londin, jazz drummer, dies at 48 August 24, 1991 Abel Kivlat, U.S. 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99 August 24, 1991 Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86 August 24, 1991 Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87 August 24, 1991 Mike Sokoll, cowboy actor, dies at 97 August 24, 1988 Leonard Frey, actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49 August 24, 1988 Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69 August 24, 1987 Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77 August 24, 1985 Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], U.S. composer, dies at 78 August 24, 1983 Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64 August 24, 1983 Shawn Lewis, 5th wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, dies of methadone OD August 24, 1978 Louis Prima, singer, dies at 66 August 24, 1978 Kofi Busia, Statesman August 24, 1976 Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76 August 24, 1975 Charles H Revson, U.S. cosmetic magnate, dies at 69 August 24, 1973 Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76 August 24, 1973 Slava Vorlova, composer, dies at 79 August 24, 1972 Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 59 August 24, 1972 Don Byas, American Musician August 24, 1967 Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65 August 24, 1967 Henry J Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85 August 24, 1964 Maurice Schoemaker, composer, dies at 73 August 24, 1962 Henry George Ley, composer, dies at 74 August 24, 1958 John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65 August 24, 1958 Kenneth Leighton, composer, dies at 28 August 24, 1958 Leo Blech, composer, dies at 87 August 24, 1957 Albert Edward Sammons, composer, dies at 71 August 24, 1954 Getulio D Vargas, pres/dictator Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71 August 24, 1950 Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63 August 24, 1943 Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies August 24, 1943 Simone Weil, French philosopher (Le pesanteur et la grace), dies at 34 August 24, 1940 Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80 August 24, 1939 Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist August 24, 1923 Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66 August 24, 1907 Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58 August 24, 1906 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies August 24, 1895 John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74 August 24, 1889 Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies August 24, 1888 Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies August 24, 1841 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36 August 24, 1840 Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89 August 24, 1833 Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65 August 24, 1806 Paul-Louis Cyffle, Flemish sculptor/goldsmith (Terre Lorraine), dies August 24, 1801 Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 August 24, 1770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies August 24, 1759 Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 August 24, 1724 Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 August 24, 1712 Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 August 24, 1680 Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried August 24, 1680 Thomas Blood, English Soldier August 24, 1666 Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57 August 24, 1647 Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61 August 24, 1595 Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies August 24, 1572 Charles de Feligny, French officer/huguenot, murdered August 24, 1572 Gaspard de Chatillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded August 24, 1371 Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated August 24, 1313 Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies August 24, 1217 Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle August 24, 1103 Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies |