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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



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